Setting up my Raspberry Pi

My Raspberry Pi arrived back in November and since then has just been sitting around on my desk or filing cabinet. After the RPi excitement of PyCon, I resolved to finally set it up. Earlier this week I bought a 4Gb SDHC card, which the Pi will use for storage, and copied the standard Raspbian image.

Today I finally got to try it out. Our new TV is the only device in the house
with HDMI input, so I hooked the Pi up to it. Starting up is easy: you get an initial installer screen that lets you select the locale and timezone, keyboard country, whether SSH is enabled or not, and a few other things. Reboot and you end up with a standard-looking Debian system.

The Python 3 version is a bit old; it's Python 3.2.3. I installed git and jed, because I intend to test my 50-examples book on the Pi. I also installed XBMC to see what it looks like.