The Foundation's first release of Raspbian, which now referred both to the community project as well as the official operating system, was announced on September 10, 2013. As the Raspberry Pi had no officially provided operating system at the time, the Raspberry Pi Foundation built on the work by the Raspbian project and began producing and releasing their own version of the software. The first build was released on July 15, 2012. Raspberry Pi OS was first developed by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as Raspbian, an independent and unofficial port of Debian to the Raspberry Pi. The default distribution is shipped with a copy of the computer algebra system Wolfram Mathematica, VLC, and a lightweight version of the Chromium web browser. Raspberry Pi OS uses a modified LXDE desktop environment with the Openbox stacking window manager, along with a unique theme.

It runs on every Raspberry Pi except the Pico microcontroller. Raspberry Pi OS is highly optimized for the Raspberry Pi with ARM CPUs. First developed independently in 2012, it has been produced as the primary operating system for these boards since 2013, distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is a Unix-like operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi family of compact single-board computers. Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit and 64-bit) / įree and open-source software licenses (mainly GPL)

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