I tried Raspbmc now: Small Debian with RPi changes and it will boot directly into XMBC. No Desktop avaiable. It is nice, played my 1080p Videos well, but i still has some bugs. Some background console output was shown at the top while playing video. Sometimes the Video judders sometimes and the audi...

Hello, i have installed the newest Debian release for RPi. First of all, I wanted to test Youtube - failed. There is no flash for ARM and Browser does not support HTML5. Is YT on RPi possible? Then I tried VLC to play a Video - failed. CPU was on 100%, no sound (VLC say problem with ALSA whatever) a...

5V?
So powering it from Monitor USB Port could be possible ?

Sure, UBoot will be able to boot from USB and SDCard Slot.
Oh and I will use Xubuntu on RasPi

What do you want?
If you want to learn programming, so and buy a book od c# or Java, whatever.

"They've talked about what programming languages they're planning on using over here"
I don't understand this sentence.
If you got Ubuntu running, you can use every programming language you want.
(I will use FreePascal and VB.NET (mono) and Java.

Cheapest Touchscreen I found was 80$. (7")
I got a small 2,4" Keychain Display for 3€ and can use it with lcd4linux to display status