Downloads

New Out Of Box Software (Recommended)
We recommend that first-time Pi users start by downloading and installing our New Out of Box Software (NOOBS) onto a 4GB (or larger) SD card. On first boot, this presents you with a choice of operating systems to install, including Raspbian, Pidora and two flavours of XBMC. Once you have installed an operating system, you can return to the NOOBS interface by holding down shift during boot; this allows you to switch to a different operating system, or overwrite a corrupted card with a fresh install of the current one.

By default, NOOBS will output over HDMI at your display’s preferred resolution, even if no HDMI display is connected. If you do not see any output on your HDMI display or are using the composite output, press 1, 2, 3 or 4 on your keyboard to select HDMI preferred mode, HDMI safe mode, composite PAL mode or composite NTSC mode respectively.

Full instructions can be found in our quick start guide, but in summary you will need to:

1. Format your SD card using the SD Card Association’s formatting tool.
2. Download and unpack the NOOBS zip file onto the SD card

NOOBS (offline and network install)

Image
NOOBS_v1_3_2.zip

Torrent
NOOBS_v1_3_2.zip.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
b5c183b2ba4be4fbaeb40f170871444f3aef19c9

Release Date
2013-11-02

Version
1.3.2

Documentation
Link

NOOBS Lite (network install only)

Image
NOOBS_lite_v1_3_2.zip

Torrent
NOOBS_lite_v1_3_2.zip.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
08c1c78a5a6b9c3fe9924c4b8aebd941a67bfb00

Release Date
2013-11-02

Version
1.3.2

Documentation
Link

Raw Images
The following raw images are intended for advanced users. To use an image file, you will need to unzip it and write it to a suitable (2GB or larger, 4GB or larger for Raspbian) SD card using the UNIX tool dd. Windows users should use Win32DiskImager. Do not try to drag and drop or otherwise copy over the image without using dd or Win32DiskImager – it won’t work. If you’re still not clear on what to do, the community on the Raspberry Pi Wiki has written a guide for beginners on how to set up your SD card.

Raspbian

Image
2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip

Torrent
2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
99e6b5e6b8cfbf66e34437a74022fcf9744ccb1d

Default login
pi / raspberry

Description
A Debian wheezy port, optimised for the Raspberry Pi

Release Date
2013-09-25

Version
wheezy

Kernel
3.6

URL
Link

Release Notes
release_notes.txt

Pidora

Image
pidora-18-r2c.zip

Torrent
pidora-18-r2c.zip.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
c43178ea18063928de21daf441aa10152d4ce4f9

Description
Pidora is a Fedora Remix optimized for the Raspberry Pi

Release Date
2013-08-09

Version
18

Kernel
3.6.11

URL
Link

Release Notes
release_notes.txt

RISC OS

Image
riscos-2013-07-10-RC11.zip

Torrent
riscos-2013-07-10-RC11.zip.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
600ea45c26f5afd91cfc4c4cfa393cd4bb7549f7

Description
RISC OS is a very fast and compact system

Release Date
2013-07-10

Version
2013-07-10

Kernel
N/A

URL
Link

RaspBMC

Image
raspbmc-2013-10-02.img.gz

Torrent
raspbmc-2013-10-02.img.gz.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
1c359a69b018a705ba6d8e95c7bb2827856d076d

Description
An XBMC media center distribution for Raspberry Pi

Release Date
2013-10-02

Version
October 2013

Kernel
3.6

URL
Link

Release Notes
release_notes.txt

Arch

Image
archlinux-hf-2013-07-22.img.zip

Torrent
archlinux-hf-2013-07-22.img.zip.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
e273d680e89ca9f79c2252c0b00ccc3084cd9b14

Default login
root / root

Description
An Arch Linux port for ARM devices

Release Date
2013-08-13

Version
2013-08-13

Kernel
3.6

URL
Link

Release Notes
release_notes.txt

OpenELEC

Image
OpenELEC-RPi.arm-3.2.0.tar

Torrent
OpenELEC-RPi.arm-3.2.0.tar.torrent

SHA-1 Checksum
ddb717b29f32fbbe27298e8ac9c077036bc4a718

Description
OpenELEC is a fast and userfriendly XBMC Mediacenter distribution.

Release Date
2013-09-14

Version
3.2.0

Kernel
3.10.11

URL
Link

Release Notes
release_notes.txt

Note: Raspbian and NOOBS contain Java SE Platform Products, licensed to you under the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement.