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Raspberry Pi Basics: installing Raspbian and getting it up and running

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Akshay Pai
Feb 9, 2015

So, are you a person who got a Raspberry Pi (aka “Pi”) and want to start building something with it but don’t know how to go about it? If yes, then this tutorial is for you. Here in this howto, we go about installing the Raspbian OS and initiating a desktop environment.

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Akshay Pai

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