Your Raspberry Pi wants an working system to work. That is it. Raspberry Pi OS (beforehand known as Raspbian) is our official supported working system.
Raspberry Pi OS is a free working system primarily based on Debian, optimized for the Raspberry Pi {hardware}, and is the really useful working system for regular use on a Raspberry Pi. The OS comes with over 35,000 packages: pre-compiled software program bundled in a pleasant format for straightforward set up in your Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi OS is underneath lively growth, with an emphasis on enhancing the steadiness and efficiency of as many Debian packages as attainable on Raspberry Pi.
Set up Raspberry Pi OS utilizing Raspberry Pi Imager
Raspberry Pi Imager is the fast and simple approach to set up Raspberry Pi OS and different working techniques to a microSD card, prepared to make use of together with your Raspberry Pi. Watch our 45-second video to learn to set up an working system utilizing Raspberry Pi Imager.
Obtain and set up Raspberry Pi Imager to a pc with an SD card reader. Put the SD card you may use together with your Raspberry Pi into the reader and run Raspberry Pi Imager.
All options for the Raspberry Pi OS might be discovered right here and the set up directions might be discovered right here.
What’s New
- Primarily based on Debian bookworm launch
- Assist for Raspberry Pi 5
- Desktop now runs on the Wayfire Wayland compositing window supervisor on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 platforms; on X11 utilizing the openbox window supervisor on older platforms
- lxpanel changed with new wf-panel-pi software when working Wayland; present lxpanel plugins migrated; gpu efficiency and energy plugins added
- pcmanfm modified to make use of Wayland backend when working on Wayland
- PipeWire used as a substitute of PulseAudio as audio management subsystem; numerous adjustments made to quantity management plugin to help this
- NetworkManager used as a substitute of dhcpcd as networking interface; numerous adjustments made to networking plugin to help this
- Firefox browser added as different to Chromium; choice of default browser added to Raspberry Pi Configuration instrument
- WayVNC VNC server used as a substitute of RealVNC when working on Wayland
- All customisation and configuration functions modified to customize Wayfire atmosphere as acceptable
- grim used as screenshot instrument as a substitute of scrot when working on Wayland
- eom picture viewer used as a substitute of gpicview
- evince doc viewer used as a substitute of qpdfview
- Chromium net browser up to date to model 116
- VLC media participant up to date to model 3.0.18
- Magnifier program not obtainable when working Wayland; Wayfire contains display screen zoom capabilities
- CustomPC and Wireframe faraway from Bookshelf
- Quite a few small adjustments and bug fixes
- Switched from raspberrypi-kernel to Debian-based kernel packaging (linux-image-rpi-*)
- Switched from raspberrypi-bootloader to Debian primarily based firmware packaging (raspi-firmware)
- /boot mount level moved to /boot/firmware