Two things:

1) You know what I mean. You can pretend otherwise, but it doesn't change anything.

2) It is not about fault. It is about OP's perceptions and intentions.

How is Raspbian not a full "fledged Linux distribution"? I think you've done an admirable job of answering your own question (given your list of all the limitations that the Pi/Raspbian suffer from). Also, the fact that it is an "image" - as in, we've already cooked it for you, seasoned it, and put...

Wouldn't it be easier to just re-install (i.e., start over) at this point?

I have a question for the OP. Your dialect fascinates me. It's obviously not English, but I'm uncertain as to its origin. Do you speak (type) that way on purpose in order to sound like a hip, cool SMS kid, or did it come from some country of which I am unaware. I'm really curious, and would really a...

This is not true of the UART port (the one on the GPIO pins).

It is shipped, ready to go.

The underlying point to this is that rc.local (and similar) gets executed via "/bin/sh", which is actually bash masquerading as "old/standard" sh. The brace expansion trick only works in bash (and some other shells, having originally appeared as part of csh). When bash is running in "sh mode", it do...

You need to keep in mind that this is all working as designed. When you open a terminal from within the GUI, you aren't logging in. You've already logged in (a long time ago). Opening a terminal from within the GUI is like "shelling out" from an application (in fact, it is exactly that). And when yo...

alexeames wrote:don't you need to include the full path to python in your cron job?

Nope.

cron can be exceedingly fussy

Yes, but this isn't one of them.

Note that this is Rpi FAQ #00001.

Epiphany has had a chequered history and it's not unusual for it to crash. +1 Epiphany is fast and sleek, but with that comes a little instability. If you leave it running all the time (as I do), then it will, every so often (not frequently, usually after many days of uptime), just disappear. Which...

Use omxplayer.

is certainly the correct answer in the "is" world.

But not in the "ought" world.

NPlayer wrote:

mahjongg wrote:I already did, use the PI specific re-compiled and modified VLC.

Hi! Where is this "specific re-compiled and modified VLC"?

Aye, there's the rub!

Sorry, I think of both as "image" files. As they contain a byte by byte picture of the disk, which would have a filesystem and structure encoded within it, as opposed to a logical copy of the files themselves. I suppose that since both cats & dogs are kept as pets, it doesn't really mattter if you ...

If you leave out the "-u", it should "just work". I.e., use your local timezone.