{"id":4191,"date":"2013-05-20T06:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2013-05-20T06:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:01:32","slug":"noobs-the-raspberrypi-new-out-of-box-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"NOOBS : the #RaspberryPi New Out Of Box System"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We had a great time at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on Saturday (full report coming soon). We had 4 visitors from the Foundation and it was great to meet them.<\/p>\n

One of the Foundation people, Gordon Hollingworth (their Head of Software), announced NOOBS, which is the New-Out-Of-Box-System.<\/p>\n

NOOBS is a new initiative (based on BerryBoot<\/a>) to help users get started with their Raspberry Pi. It’s essentially another ‘image’ that can be written to an 4GB+ SD card (and I’m sure SD cards with pre-installed images will be available) which contains the ability to install operating systems on-the-fly.<\/p>\n

We were treated to a preview of a pre-release version of the software, which Gordon hopes will be available from the Foundation site within the next week or so.<\/p>\n

You put the card in your Pi, turn it on with a keyboard plugged in and hold down the Shift key. It quickly (very quickly) boots into an interface that lets you choose from a list of operating systems. The system then goes through the process of taking the chosen OS (which is stored on a separate partition on the SD card) and installing it on the main part of the SD card.<\/p>\n

This has a few benefits:<\/p>\n