Raspbian

Raspbian

Developer	Raspberry Pi Foundation
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Current
Source model	Open source
Latest release	Raspbian Jessie with PIXEL / 16.02.2017[1]
Marketing target	Raspberry Pi
Available in	English
Update method	APT
Package manager	dpkg
Platforms	ARM
Kernel type	Monolithic
Userland	GNU
Default user interface	PIXEL,[2] LXDE
License	Free and open-source software licenses (mainly GPL)
Official website	Raspbian
Support status
Supported

Raspbian is a Debian-based computer operating system for Raspberry Pi. Since 2015 it has been officially provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as the primary operating system for the family of Raspberry Pi single-board computers.^[1] Raspbian was created by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as an independent project.^[3] The initial build was completed in June 2012.^[4] The operating system is still under active development. Raspbian is highly optimized for the Raspberry Pi line's low-performance ARM CPUs.

Raspbian uses PIXEL, Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight as its main desktop environment as of the latest update. It is composed of a modified LXDE desktop environment and the Openbox stacking window manager with a new theme and few other changes. The distribution is shipped with a copy of computer algebra program Mathematica and a version of Minecraft called Minecraft Pi^[5] as well as a lightweight version of Chromium as of the latest version.^[6]

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