Hi Well there are plugins for xbmc for youtube, spotify and torrent clients so they should be easy. There also may be a web browser plugin but I would imagine it would be very basic surfing only i.e. no flash or java support etc. I would suggest you go for rasbian + the xbmc package someone has crea...

Thankyou will try puppy out soon as i get time

Time to try some puppy on my pi i think. Quick question whats the .xz on the end of the downloaded file is this a compression type. I just want the .img to write direct to the card.

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Bubby

Hi 1. The hdmi to vga can't really be done without additional hardware because you are going from a digital signal to an analogue one. 2. wifi/network if you have a broadband router you can simply plug the Pi into a free ethernet port on your router and it will get an ip address via dhcp if you cant...

Well for me it would have to be counterstrike been playing 8 years at an average of 2 hours per day I was fair gobsmacked when I worked it out.

Hi I am pc tech support from the uk still waiting for my first pi :cry: to be delivered. Planning on using pi's for several things media player / web server and maybe even some programming :o Trying to get my son programming on it also challenged him to re-create a game I wrote originally on the com...