How do I shutdown or power off my debian linux box?

From the console, either a remote SSH session or from in front of the machine you also have access to the following commands: shutdown poweroff The second command will take no arguments and immediately begin shutting down the machine, simply run as root : poweroff...

Linux: Use the Nano Text Editor

Introduction Nano is a text editor suited to working in UNIX. It is not as powerful as PC window-based editors, as it does not rely on the mouse, but still has many useful features. Most nano commands are invoked by holding down the Ctrl key (that is, the control...

Raspberry Pi Setup for Beginners

Where to start? Any easy question to ask, but a very difficult one to answer! If you are looking for any information related to SD Cards and setup look here If you need to get a RPi, the see the Buying Guide. If you need to know what equipment you will need and how to...

Raspberry Pi: How to Create a Linux Image for the SD Card

This page contains links to SD card images for various Linux distributions. For each distribution, we provide both a direct HTTP download, a torrent file and a SHA-1 hash; the total number of concurrent direct downloads is limited, so we encourage you to use the...

Raspberry Pi Model B Linux Specs

SoC Broadcom BCM2835 (CPU, GPU, DSP, and SDRAM) CPU: 700 MHz ARM1176JZF-S core (ARM11 family) GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV, OpenGL ES 2.0, 1080p30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder Memory (SDRAM): 256 Megabytes (MiB) Video outputs: Composite RCA, HDMI Audio outputs:...