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Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, ...

Recently I've been experimenting with a Raspberry Pi (revision B) running different GNU/Linux distributions. Since the Pi is a basically a mini-computer, I decided to take it for a spin and see what I ...

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As I review one Linux distribution or another, I find myself uttering phrases like “This is pretty good! Almost makes me want to switch my system to this,” over and over again. So many distributions ...

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