Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
The Console
Behind the pretty graphical interfaces of a Linux-based operating system such as
Raspbian, is the console.
The console is the most basic way of communicating with the innards of the
Raspbian operating system. The console's history started at the very beginning
of computing where the interface to a computer was a keyboard and a teletype
machine. At that time, operators would type a command and the result would be
printed in front of them.
A teletype machine
Fortunately, with the development of computer monitors, we no longer need
a typewriter to communicate with our computer and there are many different
ways in which this can be done. You already learned how to use the Raspberry Pi's
graphical user interface Xfce, and this chapter will run you through how you can use
the built-in console terminal application called bash.
