Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
The Raspbian desktop
The Raspbian desktop is very similar to many other desktop environments,
such as the Windows desktop. Raspbian is packed with heaps of educational
and programming tools out of the box.
The Raspbian desktop
To be able to make the most of the desktop environment, you need to have a
computer mouse connected to your Raspberry.
The Raspbian filesystem
Before we go any further, it is important to get a good understanding of how files
and storage are organized on a Linux-based operating system such as Raspbian.
It won't take you long if you are used to using Windows to realize that all your
files are organized differently. Gone are the drive letters that you used to access
all the different storage attached to your computer. Linux, like its cousins Unix
and
Berkeley Software Distribution
(
BSD
), from which Mac OS X is derived,
organizes everything within a filesystem hierarchy.
This filesystem hierarchy starts from one place, the root directory:
/
. Every file
and device in Linux is contained within this single hierarchy.