Raspbian is a Debian-based computer operating system for Raspberry Pi. It is now official provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, as primary operating system for the family of Raspberry PI SoCs.[3] Raspbian was created by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as independent project.[4] The initial build ware completed in June 2012.[5] Since then the creators maintain separated branch of OS. The operating system is still under active development. Raspbian due to narrow hardware target is highly optimized to use of ARM CPU architecture low-performance specs.
| Raspbian | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Raspbian community |
| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | Raspbian Jessie / 10.5.2016[1] |
| Marketing target | Raspberry Pi |
| Available in | English |
| Update method | APT |
| Package manager | dpkg |
| Supported platforms | ARM |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| Userland | Xfce, LXDE, PIXEL[2] |
| License | DFSG |
| Official website | Raspbian |
| Support status | |
| Supported | |
Raspbian use PIXEL as main desktop environment. It is composed of LXDE software and Openbox stacking window manager with new theme and few major changes. The distribution is shipped with free copy of computer algebra program Mathematica.
References
- ^ Download Raspbian for Raspberry Pi
- ^ "Introducing PIXEL". Raspberry Pi. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
- ^ "Download Raspbian for Raspberry Pi". Raspberry Pi. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ^ "RaspbianAbout - Raspbian". www.raspbian.org. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ^ "FrontPage - Raspbian". www.raspbian.org. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
 | This Linux-distribution-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
