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.

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.

I'm trying out the new RaspberryPi NOOBS 1.3.12 software release - and itching to get my hands on the new RaspberryPi 2 hardware that I just ordered!

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 Foundation has introduced new software designed to help anyone struggling to use its cheap mini-computer.