Low Cost Computing, Sweet Raspberry Pi<\/p>\n
I decided to revive this site, I feel bad about not updating since the departure of my Zaurus SL-6000. I was tempted to turn it to a Palm site, but that is a pretty dead platform as well.\u00a0 It was an amazing piece of technology, and a great prediction of what smartphones would become. Anyway, I do have other computer interests. I run Ubuntu on my home computer and netbook. I also recently received, as a gift, a Raspberry Pi 2. (Thanks Mark!) I already had a Pi 1, but as useful as it was, it had to run Raspbian or similar. With the 2, I finally had the opportunity to run full blown Ubuntu for Arm!<\/p>\n
You can run Noobs and install a myriad of operating systems, including Raspbian, which is a Debian based Linux distribution. Ubuntu is also Debian based, but has a lot of support, and supports ARM based processors. Since that has been primary operating system for about the last 5 years, it was a natural choice.<\/p>\n
Installing:<\/p>\n
I decided to go with Linux MATE.\u00a0 The Pi lacks the hardware to run Unity, so MATE is a great alternative with a similar user experience and is a an easy to use Gnome based environment.<\/p>\n
Download the image from:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/ubuntu-mate.org\/raspberry-pi\/<\/a><\/p>\n The site has a couple of easy to follow instructions.\u00a0 In short, downloaded, copied to an SD card and ran a few commands:<\/p>\n These expand the file system to the full size of the card you are using.\u00a0 This is enough to get you started.\u00a0 Next time I will detail what speed improvements I eeked out of this affordable hardware.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Low Cost Computing, Sweet Raspberry Pi I decided to revive this site, I feel bad about not updating since the departure of my Zaurus SL-6000. I was tempted to turn it to a Palm site, but that is a pretty … Continue reading sudo<\/span> fdisk<\/span> \/<\/span>dev<\/span>\/<\/span>mmcblk0<\/span><\/h4>\n
sudo<\/span> resize2fs<\/span> \/<\/span>dev<\/span>\/<\/span>mmcblk0p2<\/span><\/h4>\n
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