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Raspberry Pi OS is a Unix-like operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi family of compact single-board computers. Raspbian was developed independently in 2012, became the primary operating system for these boards since 2013, was originally optimized for the Raspberry Pi 1 and distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. [3]
The Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 was released in May 2016, which added a camera connector. [40] The Raspberry Pi Zero W was launched in February 2017, a version of the Zero with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, for US$10. [41] [42] The Raspberry Pi Zero WH was launched in January 2018, a version of the Zero W with pre-soldered GPIO headers. [43]
Linux From Scratch is a way to install a working Linux system by building all components of it manually. This is, naturally, a longer process than installing a pre-compiled Linux distribution . According to the Linux From Scratch site, the advantages to this method are a compact, flexible and secure system and a greater understanding of the ...
Closed-source boards like the DreamPlug, [18] Cubietruck [19] and the Raspberry Pi [20] [21] are possible options, while more are on the way. There is also a VirtualBox image. FreedomBox can additionally be installed over a clean Debian installation.
Pacman, a package manager written specifically for Arch Linux, is used to install, remove and update software packages. [11] An alternative is the Arch User Repository (AUR), which is the community-driven repository for Arch Linux; AUR packages can be downloaded and built, or installed through an AUR 'helper'.
Zorin OS is available in various free and paid versions [5] including versions using XFCE instead of GNOME for use with older computers. [6] Zorin OS follows the long-term releases of the main Ubuntu system and uses its own software repositories as well as Ubuntu's repositories.
The MagPi is the official Raspberry Pi magazine. It started off life as a free [1] fanzine for users of the Raspberry Pi computer. It was created by the community [2] [3] as an unofficial volunteer produced Raspberry Pi publication [4] and in 2015 was handed over to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to be run in-house as the official Raspberry Pi magazine. [5]
Void Linux was created in 2008 by Juan Romero Pardines, a former developer of NetBSD, [6] to have a test-bed for the XBPS package manager. The ability to natively build packages from source using xbps-src is likely inspired by pkgsrc and other BSD ports collections.