April 2016
Beginner
174 pages
3h 46m
English
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Installing Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi
There are many distributions that can run on the Pi. Some are specific real-time operating systems, such as RISCOS, or mainstream operating systems, such as Raspbian or Archlinux. A few flavors of home media centers, such as OpenElec or OSMC (previously known as XBMC). As of June 2015, you will also be able to install Windows 10 Internet of Things. No Android support is foreseen for the near future.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends that you use their image called NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software,) which contains frequently updated list of different operating systems. In this book, we will be using Raspbian. It is supported by the Foundation and has the best compatibility with ease of use. Raspbian is ...