Now I'm, finally, writing this post from within the Raspbian Wheezy that operates my Raspberry Pi. Although that I knew its values and parameters, I couldn't entirely free my mind from the expectation that I'll see yet another desktop system. That's why its naturally modest performance as a desktop environment got me unprepared. Apart from that there were very few "disappointments". The first boot At that point the raspi-config application (which runs automatically only on the first boot, afterwards it have to be invoked explicitly on the console) is pretty straightforward. Its options are pretty self-explanatory. I didn't try them all at once, because overclocking for instance is something that I intend to experiment with later on. The following list is not exhaustive: changing the password of the default user (which is pi); expanding the root file system to the entire space available on the SD card (in my case 16 GB) choosing speci
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