Computing with the Raspberry Pi: Command Line and GUI Linux

ISBN-13: 9781484252925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 211 str.

Brian Schell

Spis treści

Chapter 1: HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS AND NOTES ON GETTING STARTED

Why Do This?

Chapter 2: SETTING UP THE RASPBERRY PI

Necessary Hardware

Optional Hardware

Creating the Initial Boot Media

Setting up the Server for Local Use

Setting up the Server for Remote Use

 

Chapter 3: THE RASPBERRY PI DESKTOP

Using the Interface

Writing Tools

Email

Other “Office” Apps

Notes Apps

Security

Web Browsers

Communications

Social Media

Graphics, Art, and Photos

Audio and Video

News and Weather

Books, Comics, and Reading

Task Management      

Coding/Programming/Web Design

Web Apps and Services          

 

Chapter 4: GETTING TO A COMMAND LINE

Concept: Remote Servers and SSH

Logging in Locally

Logging in from a Windows Computer

Logging in from a Mac Computer

Logging in from a Linux Computer

 

Chapter 5: USING THE COMMAND LINE: THE TOOLS

Tmux

Terminator      

Ranger and Midnight Commander

 

Chapter 6: USING THE COMMAND LINE - THE APPS

Writing Tools

Email

Other “Office” Apps

Notes Apps

Security

Web Browsers

Communications

Social Media

Graphics, Art, and Photos

Audio and Video

News and Weather

Books, Comics, and Reading

Task Management      

Coding/Programming/Web Design

Web Apps and Services

Using Command Line Tools with the GUI      

 

Chapter 7: ADVANCED COMMAND LINE TOPICS

Markdown and LaTeX

Customization with Dot Files

My .vimrc File

Todo.txt format

Additional Resources

O autorze

Brian Schell is a former College IT Instructor who has an extensive background in computer science dating back to the 1980s. He's authored over 20 books, with topics ranging from computers, to world religions, to ham radio, and even releases the occasional short horror tale.

Blurb

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.