Choosing an operating system to install
Because the Raspberry Pi Zero uses the same ARMv6 chip offered in the original Raspberry Pi, it won't be ideal for the latest of all varieties of Linux that the newer generation of models can support. The clear choice right now for the RPZ is Raspbian Jessy. Adafruit Industries has a great set of instructions for installing Fedora Pi on the RPZ, and you can install pretty much any OS that runs on the ARMv6 chip, but the Raspbian Jessie release on the Raspberry Pi website is the most stable and easy-to-use distribution available for the RPZ. For this cookbook, we will use Raspbian Jessie.
How to do it...
On the Raspberry Pi website, the Downloads page offers both a full version (offline install) and a "Lite" ...
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