Think of the children. No, seriously, think of the children and students that can't afford computers as in: "A child's exposure to technology should never be predicated on an ability to afford it." That's pretty much what this was designed for. Every time I see a post, blog, or other outlet discussi...

Could be worth just booting from the SD and creating a chroot startup script too.

Software firewall. If you're using the fedora image, iptables is wonderful. i'm not sure what firewall debian uses currently (ipfw, i believe) or if it's been built for ARM architectures yet, but it should have something comparable. Stop every service you don't need, set the firewall's default polic...

Screen: a login session in screen is very useful for 'detaching' a session that stays running. you can reconnect to that session later or from another location. it's the console equivalent of having multiple "windows" as well. It's well worth reading up on. nohup: leaves process/command running whet...

I like where this thread is going. <3

Sorry. I don't believe an 8 year old set up a raspberry pi out of the box, on their own. (Home page story). I don't believe you've been 8 years old within the last 25 years. If you were, I don't believe you had the meta-cognitive ability or memory faculties in place to remember what effect curiosit...

Months of waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Updates. Emails. Announcements. Shipping dates. New Shipping dates. More waiting. Try not to read email; just wait and don't even pay attention to it. It'll get here when it gets here, I'll die of asphyxiation if I hold my breath in excitement. Just play it cool....