Monday 16 April 2012

Let's boot this up, shall we?

After admiring what a awesome little thing this is, I decided to plug it all in.  I'll say upfront here that I've been pleasantly surprised at the performance.  I'd heard several gripes about speed, but from plugging the power in, logging in and launching the GUI it took less than 60 seconds.

For this I used my Samsung Series 6 40" LCD, using a fairly standard HDMI cable (can't remember where I got it).  I'm using a 4GB Class 4 Kingson card with the latest Debian image.

Let's plug it in (HDMI, keyboard & SC card - power pending):


The first thing you see it a login prompt.  The latest credentials for this version are pi and raspberry.


Once logged in I just need to run startx:


And there we have it - Debian running on the Raspberry Pi!


Here you can see the Pi running at 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz:


You can see it all in action here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HSNb9Jlg_k

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