CHAPTER 2
Linux by the Seat of Your Pants
Raspberry Pi uses Linux as its standard operating system, so that means if you don’t know anything about this awesome OS, you’re going to have to learn. Don’t worry—I’ll try to make this as painless as possible.
Whatever your preconceptions about Linux are, you can probably disregard them. Since its inception, Linux has always been regarded as the “geek’s OS,” associated with images of button-up-short-sleeve-shirt-clad pencil-necks hammering away on a keyboard while the screen fills with text and somewhere, deep in the basement, a row of tape-driven computer hard-drive cabinets spin to life. (See Figure ...
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