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Mark Edward Soper, Expanding Your Raspberry Pi, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2922-4_2

2. The Distro Bunch

Mark Edward Soper

(1)Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

The Raspberry Pi family of single-board computers has broad operating systems support in both Linux and non-Linux environments. Your first step in expanding your Raspberry Pi is choosing the right distro or operating system for the job (or jobs) you want to perform with your Raspberry Pi.

In this chapter, you’ll take a tour of the major Linux distros and other operating systems available for Raspberry Pi. You’ll learn what they include, what tasks they’re designed to perform, what they look like, and the specific Raspberry Pi versions they support. Whether you use ...

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