Raspberry Pi up and running

Had to get a new keyboard for it, as the original one I was going to use caused an instant kernel panic...

Its not PC fast of course, but is perfectly acceptable - should be able to run some simple 3D games pretty well...

The OS (Debian "Squeeze") is very steamlined to something like Ubuntu - so there is no Update Centre, Package Manager or multiple choices of web browser

Gah!! So jealous!!

Mine is about 5 weeks away as I only got my order code last Thursday..

Looking forward to playing with Raspbmc..

No update centre?

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1	sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade

is all you need!

Unless you're a "fly by the seat of your pants" kind of guy in which case

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1 2	sudo -s apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade

Does the trick, and handily leaves you in Super User mode for performing tasks that shouldn't be run in super user mode!


[confession]I'm only acting out because I'm jealous[/confession]
[big confession]The server I run at home that has debian on it doesn't have sudo installed, so I use su to enter super user mode, and normally just stay in super user mode till I log off![/big confession]

"Its not PC fast of course"

That rather depends on the PC being used for comparison.

I think I started back in the days of RedHat 4 on a 486.

I think the RasPi is meant to be somewhere in the land of 300MHz Pentium, as a rough indication; correction welcome. Nicer than a 486 anyway.

Does it give you a boot-time number for bogomips?

A 700Mhz ARM11 CPU has got to be faster than an old Pentium II!

256MB RAM seems likely to be the most limiting thing.

I got my code to order today so hopefully will have one in about 4 weeks

I was comparing it to my 3Ghz machine

Does it give you a boot-time number for bogomips?

I'll probably do some spec testing when I get my second one in approximately 3 weeks

I can see it handling 3D games pretty well, after all, if an A3010 can handle this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueae6bfPYaM on an ARM 250/ARM 3 then an ARM 11 should be fine

I'll have to try that sudo update too

Might also try the other versions too...

This is a video of me using the Pi : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubfc-4JE_qg&feature=plcp

Seems nippy enough running X. Could you do a top?

I've put it away now unfortunately - will have to do that when the second one comes...

Ok.