OS family Unix-like Source model Open source | Working state Current Marketing target Raspberry Pi | |
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Developer Raspberry Pi Foundation Latest release Raspbian Jessie with PIXEL / 16.02.2017 | ||
Raspbian is a Debian-based computer operating system for Raspberry Pi. It is now officially provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, as the primary operating system for the family of Raspberry Pi single-board computers. Raspbian was created by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as an independent project. The initial build was completed in June 2012. 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 free copy of computer algebra program Mathematica. It also includes a version of Minecraft called Minecraft Pi and a Pi-enhanced version of Chromium as of the latest version.