Raspberry Pi is a single board computer, which is a developed by Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable organization registered in the UK. The several models of Raspberry Pi have been produced. Currently, three models of Raspberry Pi are available at the market (as of October 2015).
The models that use Broadcom BCM2835, a SoC which embeds ARM1176-S (1-core).
- Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+
- Raspberry Pi 1 Model A+
The model that uses Broadcom BCM2836, a SoC which embeds ARM Cortex-A7 (4-core)- Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
At BC::labs, the articles of Raspberry Pi use Raspberry Pi 2 Model B as a hardware example since it is newer than other models, and its processing speed and power are faster and more powerful than other two models.
To learn how to set up a bootable OS for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, please look at the section of Bootable OS for Raspberry Pi 2.
Raspbian is a OS for Raspberry Pi, and it is derived from debian.
For the information of each version of Raspbian is listed at the page for Raspbian.~
- 2015-10-19: This document is originally published.