How To

Raspbian OS | How to Install Raspbian OS on Your Raspberry Pi?

Published

3 years ago

April 27, 2020

Raspbian OS is the Debian-based computer operating system for Raspberry Pi. There is a various version of Raspbian including the Raspbian Stretch and the Raspbian Jessie. It has been officially given by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as the primary operating system for the family of Raspberry Pi Single-board computers Since 2015. The OS was developed by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as the Independent Project. The initial build was completed in June 2012. The operating system is still under development. It is highly optimized for the Raspberry Pi line’s low-performance ARM CPUs. It uses PIXEL, Pi improved Xwindows Environment. It is a Lightweight OS as it is in the main desktop environment as the latest update. Raspberry Pi is composed of the modified LXDE desktop environment and the Openbox stacking window manager with a new theme and few other changes. The distribution is shipped with the computer program with the mathematical and a version of Minecraft called the Minecraft Pi as well as the lightweight version of the Chromium as the latest version.

It is the free Operating System which is based on the Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. It is the set of basic programs and utilities which makes the Raspberry Pi run. It offers more than a pure OS, it comes with more than 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for the easy installation on the Raspberry Pi. It provides the best performance on the Raspberry Pi, which was completed in June of 2012. It has provided the community funded and supported free software effort.

Related: Top 5 Raspberry Pi OS

Version History of Raspbian OS

The following table provides you with the version history of Raspbian OS, It also shows you the compatibility of the Raspberry based on the Raspbian OS.

Release Date	Release Name	Debian Version	Linux Kernel	GCC	apt	Raspberry Pi 1/1+	Raspberry Pi 2	Raspberry Pi 3	Raspberry Pi 3+
2013-9-27	2013-09-25	7 (Wheezy)	3.6	4.7.2	0.9.7	Yes	No	No	No
2013-10-07	2013-09-25	Yes	No	No	No
2013-12-24	2013-12-20	3.10	Yes	No	No	No
2014-1-09	2014-01-07	Yes	No	No	No
2014-6-22	2014-06-20	3.12	Yes	No	No	No
2014-7-08	2014-06-20	Yes	No	No	No
2014-9-12	2014-09-09	Yes	No	No	No
2014-10-08	2014-09-09	Yes	No	No	No
2014-12-25	2014-12-24	Yes	No	No	No
2015-2-02	2015-01-31	3.18	Yes	Yes	No	No
2015-2-17	2015-02-16	Yes	Yes	No	No
2015-2-18	2015-02-16	Yes	Yes	No	No
2015-5-07	2015-05-05	Yes	Yes	No	No
2015-5-12	2015-05-05	Yes	Yes	No	No
2015-9-28	2015-09-25 2015-09-24	8 (Jessie)	4.1	4.9	1.0.9.8.1	Yes	Yes	No	No
2015-11-24	2015-11-21	Yes	Yes	No	No
2016-2-08	2016-02-03	Yes	Yes	No	No
2016-2-09	2016-02-09	Yes	Yes	No	No
2016-2-29	2016-02-26	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016-3-18	2016-03-18	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016-5-13	2016-05-10	4.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016-5-31	2016-05-27	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016-9-28	2016-09-23	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016-11-29	2016-11-25	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-2-27	2017-02-16	4.9	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-3-03	2017-03-02	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-4-10	2017-04-10	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-6-23	2017-06-21	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-7-05	2017-07-05	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-8-17	2017-08-16	9 (Stretch)	6.3	1.4.6	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-9-08	2017-09-07	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017-11-29	2017-11-29	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2018-03-13	2018-03-13	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2018-04-18	2018-04-18	4.14	1.4.8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2018-06-29	2018-06-27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

How to Install Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi

Installing the Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi is very simple. You can download the Raspbian and write the disc image to the microSD card, then boot the Raspberry Pi to the microSD card. For this project, you nee the microSD card. The minimum 8GB card is required for the installation. This method of installing the Raspbian can also be used for installing various Operating Systems on the Raspberry Pi. The only thing you need to know with this method is to write the disc image to your microSD card, then you can open up a lot of options for fun Raspberry Pi projects.

Step 1: Download the Raspbian, You can find the latest version of the Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi foundation’s website.

Step 2: Unzip the file, Generally, the Raspbian disc image is compressed, So that you need to unzip it. It uses the ZIP64 format so that it depends on how current your built-in utilities are, you need to use some programs to unzip it. such ac 7-Zip.

Step 3: Insert the microSD card into your computer and write the disc image to it. You can write it using the Win32 Disk Imager software.

Step 4: Put the microSD card in your Pi and boot up, once the disc image has been written to the microSD card, you can put that card into the Raspberry Pi, then plug in the peripherals and the power source, and enjoy. The current edition to the Raspbian will bott directly to the desktop. The default credentials are your username pi and password raspberry.