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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 it doesn't get tested and maintained for all operating systems its components are known to work on.
# 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.
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.
# Non-Debian Linuxes
Even more likely to require local workarounds are non-Debian type Linux based OSes like [openSuSE](https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi3) or [CentOS](https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32/RaspberryPi3).
At the time of this writing, no one has attempted to run the PiDP-8/I software on such OSes. We welcome your [bug reports](https://tangentsoft.com/pidp8i/bugs) or discussion on the [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pidp-8).
# macOS
The PiDP-8/I software is frequently built and tested on macOS while its primary maintainer is working on features that do not require the PiDP-8/I front panel hardware. (Why? Because it builds 3-12 times faster than on a Pi 3, depending on what has to be built!)
# FreeBSD
Because the software builds and runs on macOS, it *should* also build and run on FreeBSD, but this has not yet been tested.
It is expected that the code that drives the PiDP-8/I front panel hardware will not work on [FreeBSD for the Raspberry Pi](https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi). We have an [open feature ticket](/tktview?name=856225858e) for that, if you want to work on it.
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