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Useful Raspberry Pi Tips

Paul Lefebvre on October 11, 2018

Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your Raspberry Pi. Updating Raspbian OS To update Raspbian, you can run these two ...
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Fernando Costa

I would go for:

Sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

I'm not very proeficient with raspberry besides using it as a media server or running some lightweight scripts, but that is the first command I always run on a newly installed distro.

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Paul Lefebvre

Yes, dist-upgrade is better. I've updated the post.

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SangeethaKP

Hi, could you please also point to some beginner friendly Raspberry tutorials?

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Paul Lefebvre

Here's a book I wrote if you want to learn how to program for the Pi: Programming the Raspberry Pi with Xojo

The official Raspberry Pi magazine, MagPi, has lots of good stuff.