Amid all the excitement of the Raspberry Pi Zero announcement, a new Raspbian release and the corresponding NOOBS package have been overlooked. Here's my take on them.

“Noobs” stands for Raspberry Pi’s “new out of box software.” It is what first-timers need to quickly and easily set up their Raspberry Pi.

NOOBS is incredibly simple to use. Just burn the image to an SD card (our setup guide can help with that if you need it), and put the SD card into your Raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi itself doesn’t come with an operating system. For that, you need NOOBS, short forNew Out of the Box Software. It’s an operating system manager that makes it easy to download ...

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, hackable mini-computer designed to support open source software and enable students, hackers, and just about anyone to learn to use a computer. But the truth of ...

NOOBS is the built-in operating system installer for Raspberry Pi. But if you already know which operating system you want to use, there's a quicker way to get your Pi up and running.

Just in time for the New Year, a new Raspbian release and a new NOOBS package. Here's how they installed and work on my two Raspberry Pi systems.