by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
Display Startx fails to start If you just get errors instead of a desktop when typing startx you may be out of storage space on the SD card. By default there are only a few hundred MB free in the 2 GB main partition, which can quickly fill up if you download files....
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Linux / Ubuntu
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...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Linux / Ubuntu
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...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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...