Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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So I just got one of these recently, can anyone suggest some cool things to do to get me going with it? I've setup a profile etc but not really done much, I may get an extra card and give XBMC a go...maybe it will replace my ATV!
 
Should be getting mine tomorrow for use with OpenELEC/XBMC :) Can't wait to tinker with it - seems to be the fun part for me.

Just to ask a silly question, I'm planning on running off USB for the added performance benefits - will an 8GB USB3 stick be sufficient for XBMC duties? Media is stored on my NAS so there won't be anything stored locally.

Thanks.
 
Atari said:
Just to ask a silly question, I'm planning on running off USB for the added performance benefits - will an 8GB USB3 stick be sufficient for XBMC duties? Media is stored on my NAS so there won't be anything stored locally.
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Works for me... Alternatively depending on if your NAS is an off-the-shelf NAS or one you made yourself you can actually keep most of the raspbmc OS on the NAS itself instead of the USB/SD card... which is great for upgrading and if you might want to run multiple pi's in different rooms (they can all sync up with one database on the NAS)
 
uncle_rufus said:
Works for me... Alternatively depending on if your NAS is an off-the-shelf NAS or one you made yourself you can actually keep most of the raspbmc OS on the NAS itself instead of the USB/SD card... which is great for upgrading and if you might want to run multiple pi's in different rooms (they can all sync up with one database on the NAS)
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Thanks for the info :) It's just a standard Zyxel NAS so probably won't support it but I'm not too bothered about each one having it's own DB. Can't wait to get home and start setting it up :p

Longbow said:
Remember that you won't get USB3 performance because the Pi only has USB2.
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I did read that too, I figured a USB3 drive should be more likely to saturate the USB2 potential speeds over a standard USB2 drive. They're pretty cheap now so no reason not to :cool:
 
Atari said:
I did read that too, I figured a USB3 drive should be more likely to saturate the USB2 potential speeds over a standard USB2 drive. They're pretty cheap now so no reason not to :cool:
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Good idea, I have my raspbmc running off my repaired 16GB USB2 Corsair GT pen and it's significantly faster than when I used a class10 SD card.
I also read that it allows for better overclocks, mine is heavily overclocked at 1.1GHz & 500MHz (GPU, RAM) and it's solid as a rock :-)
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Good idea, I have my raspbmc running off my repaired 16GB USB2 Corsair GT pen and it's significantly faster than when I used a class10 SD card.
I also read that it allows for better overclocks, mine is heavily overclocked at 1.1GHz & 500MHz (GPU, RAM) and it's solid as a rock :-)
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On the overclocking front I thought it wasn't the fact that you're using USB making any difference to what can be attained, it's just that if your overclock goes wrong you're less likely to corrupt the SD card (since it's never really being written to and only read from briefly on boot)... Same end result of course, I've only pushed mine up a bit to about 900MHz I think, not sure about the RAM
 
uncle_rufus said:
On the overclocking front I thought it wasn't the fact that you're using USB making any difference to what can be attained, it's just that if your overclock goes wrong you're less likely to corrupt the SD card (since it's never really being written to and only read from briefly on boot)... Same end result of course, I've only pushed mine up a bit to about 900MHz I think, not sure about the RAM
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That could very well be the case, perhaps USB pens/memory have better error correction or are somehow less susceptible to corruption compared to SD card memory. Would make sense when you think how USB memory is used compared to most SD card applications.
 
chippy08 said:
Do you know of any guides for this ?
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Transmission is in the apt repository, so....

1) Install Raspbian from image
2) Follow the initial setup (configure passwords, blah, blah)
3) run "sudo apt-get install transmission"


If you need any more help than that, remember that Raspbian is just a flavour of Linux. Just search for guides on installing/configuring Transmission on Linux.
 
Evilpaul said:
Transmission is in the apt repository, so....

1) Install Raspbian from image
2) Follow the initial setup (configure passwords, blah, blah)
3) run "sudo apt-get install transmission"


If you need any more help than that, remember that Raspbian is just a flavour of Linux. Just search for guides on installing/configuring Transmission on Linux.
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Thanks will try in a few hours
 
Had my Pi a week or so ago.

Been configuring it today.

Enabled SSH so it can run headless, and installed Ser2net so that I can use it as an access server for my Cisco devices.

Will try to set it up as a Syslog/NTP/TFTP server at some point. Need to do some CAT5 cabling to connect it to the Cisco devices.

How do you change the login credentials for SSH from the default of Pi and Raspberry? I tried a couple of guides online but they
didn't change it at all.
 
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