Operating system images
Many operating systems are available for Raspberry Pi, including Raspberry Pi OS, our official supported operating system, and operating systems from other organisations.
Raspberry Pi Imager is the quick and easy way to install an operating system to a microSD card ready to use with your Raspberry Pi. Alternatively, choose from the operating systems below, available to download and install manually.
Raspberry Pi OS
Compatible with:
Raspberry Pi OS with desktop
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 32-bit
- Kernel version: 5.15
- Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
- Size: 837MB
Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 32-bit
- Kernel version: 5.15
- Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
- Size: 2,277MB
Raspberry Pi OS Lite
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 32-bit
- Kernel version: 5.15
- Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
- Size: 297MB
Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)
Raspberry Pi OS with desktop
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 64-bit
- Kernel version: 5.15
- Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
- Size: 757MB
Raspberry Pi OS Lite
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 64-bit
- Kernel version: 5.15
- Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
- Size: 270MB
Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)
Compatible with:
Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) with desktop
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 32-bit
- Kernel version: 5.10
- Debian version: 10 (buster)
- Size: 751MB
Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Legacy)
- Release date: April 4th 2022
- System: 32-bit
- Kernel version: 5.10
- Debian version: 10 (buster)
- Size: 284MB
Raspberry Pi Desktop
Compatible with:
- PC and Mac
Debian Buster with Raspberry Pi Desktop
- Release date: January 11th 2021
- System: 32-bit
- Kernel version: 4.19
- Debian version: 10 (buster)
- Size: 2,948MB