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There are dozens of operating systems out in the wild, each designed and optimized for different things. This paper will be focusing on one such optimized operating system named Raspbian. This operating system is a derivation of the more well-known operating system Debian. More precisely, Raspbian is a modified and optimized port of Debian’s Jessie build. As this paper goes on, readers will discover that since Raspbian is a direct descendent of Debian Jessie, it inherits most of Debian’s traits.
To begin, the name Raspbian comes from two separate pieces. The first is its parent operating system, Debian. Debian is an operating system created by The Debian Project that makes use of either the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Raspbian derives from Debian in that it was originally designed to be a port of the “ABI ARM Hard Float Port”, also known as the “armhf” port, which was in itself a port of Debian Wheezy. The reason for the double port of Debian is the other half of Raspbian’s name: the Raspberry Pi. The original Raspberry Pi was released by The Raspberry Pi Foundation in February 2012. Originally designed in Europe, the hope was “that teachers, developers and the government will come together to get the device into the hands of children who may not have access to a computer at home or would not be allowed by parents to ‘muck about with it’” (Cellan-Jones). The Raspberry Pi Foundation was met with immediate success not only in its original goal, but far beyond it. The

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