


Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi. The initial build of Raspbian was completed by Peter Green as a college project and has since grown to become the main OS for Raspberry Pis, due to its stability, performance, and the active community support. Raspbian is officially provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, as the primary OS for use on Raspberry Pis.