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Raspberry Pi

Systems and hardware Embedded and IoT
Official docs Learn Raspberry Pi on your Mac

Official docs outline

9 sections
  1. Getting started

    Imaging an SD card and booting a Raspberry Pi for the first time.

  2. Raspberry Pi OS

    Raspberry Pi OS features, packages and software setup.

  3. Configuration

    raspi-config and system configuration options.

  4. config.txt

    Boot configuration in config.txt including overlays, clocks and display options.

  5. Raspberry Pi hardware

    Board layout and the 40-pin GPIO header pinout.

  6. Camera software

    rpicam-apps and libcamera camera tools.

  7. Remote access

    SSH, VNC and Raspberry Pi Connect.

  8. Linux kernel

    Building and configuring the Raspberry Pi Linux kernel.

  9. Processors

    BCM SoC families used in Raspberry Pi boards.

Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.

Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
5-500+ Sep 25, 2025 — Until Jan 1, 2035
5-500 Dec 9, 2024 — Until Jan 1, 2034
cm5 Nov 27, 2024 — Until Jan 1, 2036
pico2 Aug 8, 2024 — Until Jan 1, 2040
5 Oct 23, 2023 — Until Jan 1, 2036
cm4s Apr 4, 2022 — Until Jan 1, 2034

Source: endoflife.date

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