Raspbian for Raspberry Pi 2 Now Based on Debian 8 "Jessie"

Posted by thesilviu on Sep 29, 2015 10:41 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Raspbian developers have just updated their Linux distribution, and it's now based on Debian 8 "Jessie," the latest stable version available right now.

Raspbian is one of the oldest distros that were released for the Raspberry Pi platform and it continues to be one of the most used. There are, of course, quite a few other operating systems that run just fine on the Raspberry Pi, but since Raspbian is using Debian as a base, it's also somewhat easier to use, not to mention that it comes with a huge repository of packages.

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