My Raspberry Pi finally arrived yesterday! Here are some of my first impressions.
- I had two SD cards prepared, a blue SanDisk SDHC class 4 with the latest Debian “squeeze” and a Transcend class 10 with Arch Linux (01-03-2012). Both were 16GB, both booted.
- Debian somehow didn’t allow me to use my keyboard and mouse simultaneously.
, but I think this might be due to them both being slightly non-standard (my Logitech G15 actually shows up as multiple USB devices due to the display)It looks like this is because the G15 is too power hungry for a Raspberry Pi.I’ll investigate this later, sinceI prefer Arch Linux anyway 🙂 - Arch Linux felt much faster than Debian, though this may be because it’s installed installed on a faster SD card.
- The Arch Linux image doesn’t come with the familiar ‘ifconfig’ utility, it seems to have been replaced with ‘ip’ (e.g. ‘ip address’ will display your IP address)
- When people say that the Raspberry Pi is “slow”, I think it’s worth mentioning that you should really compare the Raspberry Pi to running Linux from a USB stick if anything, which at least in my experience is “slower” than running it from a HDD. Updating my Ubuntu USB stick to 11.04 took ~5h, and most of the time was spent updating packages, not downloading them…
- The Pi is a very exiting piece of technology to play with!!
Hi, will it be possible for you to grant me the permission to reproduce some extracts of this article in my bachlor’s dissertation?
Hi there,
Sure, as long as you reference or cite the article appropriately.
Regards,
Michiel