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Comparison of Raspberry Pi Operating Systems

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For the Raspberry Pi (version 1 and 2) there are multiple operating systems available. Downloads of each operating system can be found at www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

Raspbian

Raspbian is the preffered Raspberry Pi operating system and mostly used by others. It`s based on Debian and features official firmware and tools.

I recommend Raspbian

Snappy Ubuntu Core

Snappy Ubuntu Core is a relatively new operating system. It`s based on Ubuntu Linux but with extra features. This might be the next big thing!

OpenElec

OpenElec is the prefferd operating system when you want to turn your raspberry pi in a HTPC with XMBC software.

Pidora

Pidora is Fedora Linux for the Raspberry Pi. It`s a bit different from Raspbian and really interesting if you are familiar with Fedora/Red Hat Linux.

Risc OS

RISC OS is unlike the other distributions. More information about RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi. I have no idea why you would run this operating system.

Raspberry Pi desktop via RDP

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To control an Raspberry Pi on Raspbian via RDP you will need to install XRDP.
This can be done by running the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install xrdp

Raspberry Pi Default Username and Password

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Only on the Raspbian OS:

Username: pi
Password: raspberry

How to change:

sudo passwd

First use config

sudo raspi-config

Raspberry Pi 2 Announced

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The announcement of the Raspberry Pi 2 earlier this week made me happy. The thing I felt with the RPI version 1 is obvious the lack of CPU power. The version 2 has roughly 6x it`s power and 4 cores. Along with double RAM memory (1 GB compared to 512 MB) it`s now a beast in a box for its 35 bucks.

Just a couple of hours later Microsoft announced Windows 10 support for the Raspberry Pi 2 (source)
This means the RPI2 will be my new tool of choice for most programming languages. It already supports  C, C++, Java, Scratch and Ruby. It might support J and VB too when Windows 10 comes.

Raspberry Pi Samba installation guide

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This short guide describes how to install Samba (SMB) on your Raspberry Pi running Raspbian
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
smbpasswd -a pi
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart