Once your Pi is booted into NOOBS, you can select which OS you would like to install. The recommended OS is Raspbian, a Pi optimized version of Debian, however there are several other interesting choices: ArchLinux – a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that boots to the command line. Pidora – Fedora optimized for Pi. Well, you all know that Raspberry Pi 3 does not come with an Operating System in it. But yes, if you got the top Raspberry Pi Kit which comes with preloaded NOOBS on an SD card, then it will make easier to download and install the OS for your PI because the NOOBS is an OS manager needed for an installation and easy setup of the OS on PI device.
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In this Raspberry Pi tutorial, we're going to install and setup our operating system, Raspbian Assuming you've got your board, and an SD card, you're ready to carry on. Being a full computer, the Raspberry Pi uses an Operating System. While you can run headless (from a command line, no desktop), you can also have a GUI desktop if you like. There are quite a few choices for Raspberry Pi operating systems, but most people choose Raspbian, which is a Debian-based operating system that is optimized specifically for the Raspberry pi. This operating system is also most likely to support other packages that you may already be familiar with from other Linux distributions, so it makes for a good starting OS.
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