Using Raspbian it is possible to convert a Raspberry Pi into a full-featured Webserver with PHP support. Using SQLite the embedded web server is also capable of serving database-driven web applications. First of all the official Monkey APT repository needs to be included - this can done very easily by addind a line …

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It is often unjustifiable said that implementing high-availability under Linux is way too complex. Of course you will have to be patient while spending some time in learning the required basics - but all this is feasible for an experienced administrator (or someone who wants to be such an administrator some day). This …

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. Meanwhile there are plenty of operating systems available for the Raspberry Pi - including an ARM version of the source-based Linux distro CRUX. So if you like handcrafting or think Raspbian is "too mainstream", you can have a lot of fun with a SD card with at least 1 GB of memory and a pot of coffee. 😉 …

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It is quite possible that a brand-new Raspberry Pi only comes with 256 MB memory after the first boot: 1$ dmesg | grep -i "MB total" 2[ 0.000000] Memory: 256MB = 256MB total A misdelivery does not necessarily have to be the reason for this effect. It is rather important which of the following codes is noted on …

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Raspian is a special customized version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi. By default, this image includes a graphical user interface and some tools like media players and web browers. For some use cases (e.g. servers) this might be not needed. It's also a security breach if you run a server. I want to use a Raspberry Pi …

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