Am 10.12.2012 15:26, schrieb clipka:
> ... the Raspberry Pi is not!
>
> I just got mine, after months of waiting...
>
> First task: Try to communicate with it.

Okay, first step was a piece of cake: Shove in the SD card with the 
Raspberry Pi OS, hook up the Pi's HDMI port to a display (a HDMI/DVI-D 
adapter cable will work fine), plug a keyboard into the USB port, and 
power it up with a standard MicroUSB-style power adapter.

There. Linux boots, ultimately firing up some minimalistic GUI. A bit 
cumbersome because we haven't plugged in a mouse, but what the heck, 
real programmers don't need one.


Second step: Hook up the Pi's Ethernet port to the DSL router, fire up 
the package management, and see what happens.

Nice. It connects to the 'net without any fuss, updates its package 
list, and finds me 95 packages to update. But first things first: I want 
the dev packages for boost, libpng, openexr and the like. But the thing 
refuses: It demands that I become root, and I have not the slightest 
idea what the root password is.

A bit of browsing the Wiki on eLinux later, I find that there's no 
password to know, and that instead you are supposed to do everything via 
"sudo" - which obviously you can't if you're starting the programs via a 
GUI. But they tell me how to equip root with a password, which I do. 
Fine, now I can get the package manager to actually do something useful.


Third step: Communicate with the Pi remotely from my Windows machine. 
Turns out that SSH is enabled by default and works fine, and there's a 
good how-to section on the Wiki for setting up the Pi as a Samba-based 
file server, with step-by-step instructions that even a total noob can 
follow.

I would have liked to set up the Pi to remotely access its desktop via 
Xming, but XDMCP doesn't run out of the box, and there's no fancy how-to 
for it on the Wiki, so I'll stick with SSH for now. After all, what else 
am I expecting to do than run "./configure", "make install" and "povray 
foo.pov" from the command prompt? :-)


So now for task 2 step 1: Try to compile the most recent POV-Ray 3.7 
development version on the Pi. I think I already have all the necessary 
libraries installed, but we'll see...

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