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# The Situation

Although the core software underlying the PiDP-8/I software distribution is broadly portable, the dominance of Raspbian in the Raspberry Pi space means the PiDP-8/I software doesn't get tested and maintained for all operating systems its individual components are known to work on.

This article documents what it known to work, where, today.


# Raspbian, Debian, Ubuntu

The current stable release of the PiDP-8/I software distribution was tested with the [Raspbian Jessie Lite](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-jessie-is-here/) distribution, and the current development version is being tested
with the [Raspbian Stretch Lite](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/) distribution.
The current stable release of the PiDP-8/I software distribution was tested with the [Raspbian Stretch Lite](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/) distribution. Prior releases were built atop the [Raspbian Jessie Lite](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-jessie-is-here/) distribution.

Raspbian-based OSes like [pipaOS](http://pipaos.mitako.eu/) should also work, but this is not tested by the project's current developers.

The project's primary maintainer does occasionally build the software on his Ubuntu laptop as well. It works fine as long as you're not using any of the features that require the PiDP-8/I front panel hardware.

Because of that success, we expect it will run on any other Debian derivative, too, though this is not yet tested.
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