Raspberry Pi is a small computer . To use this embedded board as a system like any other computer system we will need below hardware:

1. Desktop to provide the GUI ( graphical user interface ) to interact with the system .

2. Mouse as a pointing device to point and interact with the applications .

3. Keyboard to write a code to control different general purpose GPIOs and performing many other general purpose day to day task .

4. Memory card which will act as a computer hard drive .

As we discussed , Raspberry is a small computer board . And for any computer , system software i.e. operating system like windows , Linux etc. is required to run the different day to day task and interacting with the computer system . Similarly , to interact with raspberry pi hardware board we need to install Linux based operating system as explained below .

1. Launch Raspberry Pi Imager on your PC. You can download Raspberry Pi Imager if you don’t have it already.

2. Select Use custom from the Choose OS menu.

3. Select your .img.gz file.

4. Select the microSD card you wish to burn it to.

5. Click Write.

Examples of Raspberry Pi OS :

Raspberry Pi OS with desktop

• Release date: February 21st 2023

• System: 32-bit

• Kernel version: 5.15

• Debian version: 11 (bullseye)

• Size: 924MB

Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software

• Release date: February 21st 2023

• System: 32-bit

• Kernel version: 5.15

• Debian version: 11 (bullseye)

• Size: 2,752MB

Raspberry Pi OS Lite

• Release date: February 21st 2023

• System: 32-bit

• Kernel version: 5.15

• Debian version: 11 (bullseye)

• Size: 362MB

For more Raspberry Pi OS and download the image files , Please visit the official websites .

www.raspberrypi.com

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