The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian - Learning Raspbian - page 6

Accessories
The success of the Raspberry Pi has encouraged many other groups to design
accessories for the Raspberry Pi, and users to use them. These accessories range
from a camera to a controller for an automatic CNC machine. Some of these
accessories include:

Accessories Links

Raspberry Pi camera http://www.raspberrypi.org/tag/camera-board/

VGA board http://www.suptronics.com/RPI.html

CNC Controller http://code.google.com/p/picnc/

Autopilot http://www.emlid.com/

Case http://shortcrust.net/

Raspbian
No matter how good the hardware of the Raspberry Pi is, without an operating
system it is just a piece of silicon, fiberglass, and a few other materials. There are
several different operating systems for the Raspberry Pi, including RISC OS,
Pidora, Arch Linux, and Raspbian.

Currently, Raspbian is the most popular Linux-based operating system for the
Raspberry Pi. Raspbian is an open source operating system based on Debian,
which has been modified specifically for the Raspberry Pi (thus the name
Raspbian). Raspbian includes customizations that are designed to make the
Raspberry Pi easier to use and includes many different software packages out
of the box.

Raspbian is designed to be easy to use and is the recommended operating system
for beginners to start off with their Raspberry Pi.

Debian
The Debian operating system was created in August 1993 by Ian Murdock and is
one of the original distributions of Linux.

As Raspbian is based on the Debian operating system, it shares almost all the
features of Debian, including its large repository of software packages. There are
over 35,000 free software packages available for your Raspberry Pi, and they are
available for use right now!