| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Technology in action |
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Technology in action series.
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| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1: Setting Up the Raspberry Pi As a Computer; Hardware Requirements and Notes on Getting Started; Creating the Initial Boot Media; Assembling the Computer; Assembly Instructions; First-Time Raspbian Setup; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Accessing and Configuring the Pi; Using the GUI Desktop Locally; A Command Line on the Desktop; Booting Directly to a Command Line; Remote Terminal Access; Remote GUI Access; Create a New User Account; Setting Up External Storage; Setting Up a Hard Drive for Booting |
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Adding an External Hard Drive for DataSetting Up the External Drive to Mount Automatically; Moving Your Home Directory to an External Drive; Back Up and Restore Your SD Card; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Raspberry Pi Desktop Tools; Using the Interface; Shutting Down the System; The File Manager; Installing Apps; Building Apps from Source Code; Installing Apps from the Add/Remove Software Tool; Installing Apps from the Command Line; Cleaning Up the Raspbian Menus; Cloud Services; Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Raspberry Pi Desktop Apps; Explanation of App Descriptions; Office Suite-LibreOffice |
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LibreOffice WriterLibreOffice Calc; LibreOffice Impress; Other LibreOffice Tools; Microsoft Office; Google Docs; Writing Tools; Scribus; Leafpad (aka Text Editor); AbiWord; Texmaker; PDF Tools; Qpdfview; Evince; Okular; Email; Thunderbird; Claws Mail; Web Browsers; Chromium; Firefox; Vivaldi; The Tor Browser; Notes Apps; GNote; OneNote; Zim; Cherrytree; Audio, Video, and Graphics Editing; Audacity; Kdenlive; VLC Player; Music Players; GIMP; Inkscape; File Management Apps; FileZilla; Deluge; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Using the Command-Line Tools; Spicing Up the Command Line; Tmux; Terminator |
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Ranger and Midnight CommanderUsing the Raspberry Pi As a Terminal; SSH; VNC Viewer; Essential Linux Commands; Clearing the Screen; Quitting the Terminal; Listing Files with ls; The Home Directory: ̃; Moving Around in the File System; Creating, Deleting, and Listing Directories; Removing (Deleting) Files; File Ownership with chown; Copying and Moving Files; Man Pages; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Using the Command-Line Apps; Writing Tools; Nano; Vim; Emacs; WordGrinder; Email; Sendmail; Mutt; Alpine; Other "Office" Apps; SC and SC-IM; Presentations; Notes Apps; Terminal Velocity; Emacs Org-mode |
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SecurityPass; rTorrent; Web Browsers; Googler; Lynx; W3M; ELinks; Communications; IRC: WeeChat and IRSSI; VOIP; Social Media; Twitter; Facebook; Graphics, Art, and Photos; Asciiview; FIGlet; ImageMagick; Audio and Video; Music Players; MOC (Music on Console); CMUS (C Music Player); MPC/MPD (Music Player Daemon/Controller); Movie Viewers; MPlayer; News and Weather; Instantnews; Haxor-News; Newsboat; Weather; Finger; Ansiweather; Books, Comics, and Reading; EPUB Documents; Non-EPUB Formats; Task Management; Cal; Calcurse; Todo.txt; Coding/Programming/Web Design; Web Apps and Services |
| Summary |
The Raspberry Pi is about as minimalist as a computer gets, but it has the power to run a full Linux operating system and many great desktop and command line tools as well. Can you push it to operate at the level of a $2,000 computer? This book is here to help you find out. The primary focus of this book is getting as much as possible done with a simple Pi through non-graphic, non-mouse means. This means the keyboard and the text-mode screen. On the desktop side, you'll look at many of the most powerful GUI apps available, as these offer an easy entry to get started as you learn the command line. You'll begin by setting up and configuring a Raspberry Pi with the option to run it as a graphical desktop environment or even more economically boot straight to the command line. If you want more performance, more efficiency, and (arguably) less complexity from your Pi that can only be found through the keyboard and command line. You'll also set up and configure a Raspberry Pi to use command line tools from within either the Raspberry Pi terminal, or by logging in remotely through some other computer. Once in, you'll look at Package Managers, Tmux, Ranger, and Midnight Commander as general-purpose power tools. The book then gets into specific task-oriented tools for reading email, spreadsheet work, notes, security, web browsing and design, social media, task and video password management, coding, and much more. There are conceptual overviews of Markdown, LaTeX, and Vim for work. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Raspberry Pi (Computer)
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Raspberry Pi (Ordinateur) |
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Raspberry Pi (Computer) |
| ISBN |
9781484252932 (electronic bk.) |
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1484252934 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-1-4842-5293-2 doi |
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10.1007/978-1-4842-5 |
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