Preface

This book is an introduction to the revolutionary Raspberry Pi computer and its official operating system, Raspbian. Raspbian is a free, open source operating system based on the extremely popular Debian Linux distribution. Raspbian has been specifically customized for maximum performance on the Raspberry Pi.

After reading this book, you will be able to do the following:

You can get a good understanding of the capabilities of your Raspberry Pi and Raspbian by taking a look at some of the other projects that are based on Raspbian.