Tuesday 28 May 2013

Raspberry-Pi For Dummies PDF Sampler


Raspberry-Pi-For-Dummies-PDF-Sampler available as an online or downloadable PDF.

Full version available from amazon.
Raspberry Pi For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))


Accelerated Desktop - Weston/Wayland

Interesting post about an accelerated desktop. Confused about why it has two names. However a step in the right direction. Sounds like its still at the early adopter stage. Its not a fully accelerated desktop but looks like it farms out a lot of layout related stuff the the GPU. The video shows fancy fading in and out, I hope it will deliver better performance to a standard desktop scheme too.

See: wayland-on-raspberry-pi

PiCloner and PIWriter for Mac


Using PICloner and PiWriter on my Mac book air. Easier and less stressful than "dd". Now having some issues but I suspect the Mac Book is sleeping as it is taking too long. I have disabled the sleep when power connected. Lets see if this does the job.