'''Raspbian''' is a [[Debian]]-based [[Operating system|computer operating system]] for [[Raspberry Pi]]. It is now officialofficially provided by the [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]], as the primary operating system for the family of Raspberry PI [[Systemsingle-board on a chip|SoCscomputers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/|title=Download Raspbian for Raspberry Pi|website=Raspberry Pi|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-06-05}}</ref> Raspbian was created by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as an independent project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianAbout|title=RaspbianAbout - Raspbian|website=www.raspbian.org|access-date=2016-06-05}}</ref> The initial build warewas completed in June 2012.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.raspbian.org/|title=FrontPage - Raspbian|website=www.raspbian.org|access-date=2016-04-04}}</ref> Since then the creators maintain separated branch of OS. The operating system is still under active development. Raspbian dueis tohighly narrowoptimized hardwarefor targetthe isRaspberry highlyPi optimizedline's to use oflow-performance [[ARM architecture|ARM]] CPU architecture low-performance specsCPUs.
Raspbian useuses PIXEL as its main desktop environment. It is composed of a modified [[LXDE]] softwaredesktop environment and the [[Openbox]] stacking window manager with a new theme and few major changes. The distribution is shipped with a free copy of computer algebra program [[Wolfram Mathematica|Mathematica]].
