xperiments && xperiences _

It has been very long since we had a standard file system. Last, when things were fine, was in the times of FAT! It makes sense to evolve your own operating systems. But what's the deal with proprietary file systems!? Poor me, can't decide a filesystem for my backup drive. :( FAT has a max file size limit of 4 gigs. NTFS drives aren't writable on OSX and their drivers suck on Linux. OSX uses its own file system which none other OSs can normally interpret. Linux has another thousand options available. (I'm beginning to realize that having a lot of options isn't always good.) Looks like I'll have to sell my backup drive and buy space on Amazon! It's high time now. An 'OpenFS' or something is desperately needed!

Just got my new raspberry pi working. So, apart from the board that comes inside the box, one needs a micro usb power adapter (i use a phone charger), an sd card with the raspbian image (steps to write the raspbian image on the sd card image are well documented on  elinux.org/R-Pi_Hub ), usb keyboard & mouse and an hdmi/composite display (i used a tv). After making all the connections, as soon as it is powered up, the pi boots in a config screen. RPi being a UK device, the default keyboard layout is British. One can change that from the config screen. Another useful thing to do is to expand the filesystem to span the entire sd card. After tweaking the config, it reboots into a standard bash shell. Log in using 'pi' and 'raspberry' as the credentials, type 'startx' and voila! Hello World!