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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2015, 08:40:37 PM »

I was doing some reading about the virtues of XxxBSD, and I wonder if anyone has built an image, ready-cooked of one of the BSD’s for the Raspberry Pi?

Any BSD sages around?
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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2015, 08:47:46 PM »

@NewtronStar - I'm so new to *nix and the Pi that I'm just trying to get a feel for what's worth doing, and haven't even picked an os yet. Raspbian has so much stuff available, in terms of pre-cooked software, documents tutorials and so forth, so that tends to make it the obvious choice. But *BSD and Windows 10 are also calling to me.

I'd live to get some top tips regarding good tools, so that I don't start off doing things in a really horrible, painful way.
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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2015, 09:16:24 PM »

@NewtronStar - I'm so new to *nix and the Pi that I'm just trying to get a feel for what's worth doing, and haven't even picked an os yet. Raspbian has so much stuff available, in terms of pre-cooked software, documents tutorials and so forth, so that tends to make it the obvious choice. But *BSD and Windows 10 are also calling to me.

I'd live to get some top tips regarding good tools, so that I don't start off doing things in a really horrible, painful way.

You are going to need to install Putty on your PC and set it up for the RPi from then on you can send commands direct to the RPi from PC and yes start with the Raspbian OS.
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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2016, 04:22:24 PM »

Late entry here because I only recently got the bug.

I have 3 - they are very cheap (a tenner used) and very flexible.

They're a bit like Meccano (but cheaper!).

I love 'em!

One of my unfinished projects (unfinished) is a broadband access project.

On hols I use a standard Alfa R36 + USB antenna to access Fon.

But the router tends to grab a strong-but-cross-talky instance of the "BT Wifi +Fon" SSID rather than the strongish-but-clean instance that I want, even when I say which MAC address I want via the router's UI.

Enter raspberry Pi which can work as a USB wifi router easily and be coded to ONLY join the MAC address I want.

I guess you could flash the R36 with OpenWRT and then code in there but I'd have to learn a lot about OpenWRT and I'd have to hack my router. Not even sure if that is straightforward.

The Pi is already accessible, flexible etc.

If I get it to work I'll post the set up.
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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2016, 07:03:21 PM »

A warm welcome to Brian.
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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2016, 11:46:29 PM »

Hello
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Re: Raspberry Pi owners say hello
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2016, 12:12:51 AM »

Brian, what kind if case(s) do you have, if any?
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