Raspberry Pi OS

A Raspberry Pi needs an operating system to work. The official Raspberry Pi operating system is the Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian).

Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit

The Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit image is a port of Debian Bullseye with no Desktop environment.

This is the operating system image that the Cardano Relay and Core nodes (Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB) will use.

Raspberry Pi Desktop

The Raspberry Pi Desktop image includes the Raspberry Pi Desktop.

This is the operating system image that the Cardano Cold node (Raspberry Pi 400) will use.