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Tom Auger
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I configured a RPi B+ using the latest NOOBS found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/, which I assumed had the latest Raspbian on it (Stretch, as of November 2017).

But after installing Raspbian and then performing cat /etc/os-release from an ssh session (logged in as the pi user) I'm seeing:

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

Which leads me to assume that it's Jessie, not Stretch that is installed. What is up with that? Either I'm reading the version information incorrectly or the latest NOOBS is installing Jessie not Stretch, or I'm losing my mind.

WhyWhich one is it?

I configured a RPi B+ using the latest NOOBS found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/, which I assumed had the latest Raspbian on it (Stretch, as of November 2017).

But after installing Raspbian and then performing cat /etc/os-release from an ssh session (logged in as the pi user) I'm seeing:

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

Which leads me to assume that it's Jessie, not Stretch that is installed. What is up with that? Either I'm reading the version information incorrectly or the latest NOOBS is installing Jessie not Stretch, or I'm losing my mind.

Why one is it?

I configured a RPi B+ using the latest NOOBS found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/, which I assumed had the latest Raspbian on it (Stretch, as of November 2017).

But after installing Raspbian and then performing cat /etc/os-release from an ssh session (logged in as the pi user) I'm seeing:

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

Which leads me to assume that it's Jessie, not Stretch that is installed. What is up with that? Either I'm reading the version information incorrectly or the latest NOOBS is installing Jessie not Stretch, or I'm losing my mind.

Which one is it?

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Tom Auger
Tom Auger
  • 111
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I have installed Raspbian from latest NOOBS, but it doesn't appear to be latest Raspbian version

I configured a RPi B+ using the latest NOOBS found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/, which I assumed had the latest Raspbian on it (Stretch, as of November 2017).

But after installing Raspbian and then performing cat /etc/os-release from an ssh session (logged in as the pi user) I'm seeing:

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

Which leads me to assume that it's Jessie, not Stretch that is installed. What is up with that? Either I'm reading the version information incorrectly or the latest NOOBS is installing Jessie not Stretch, or I'm losing my mind.

Why one is it?