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*The Raspberry Pi is a simple computer that is far easier to learn than a complicated machine like a Personal Computer (PC) running Windows.
*The Raspberry Pi is a computer that is better for the environment, unlike a PC manufactured with lot of components, and a PC wastes a lot of electricity if left running.▼
*You can choose either to install the Windows operating system on your Raspberry Pi or to install the simpler Raspberry Pi operating system (based on debian Linux).
**This article focusses on the latter as another article covers Windows.
**You don't need to learn much Linux, but this article does cover some commands.
*The Raspberry Pi is ideal to
▲**The Raspberry Pi is a computer that is better for the environment, unlike a PC manufactured with lot of components, and a PC wastes a lot of electricity if left running.
**Downloading the release distribution, and unzipping the files, is the same on any device
**On Linux you need to (simply) manually install one extra component (Mono-complete), while the equivalent component (.NET) is automatically installed on Windows.
**One option covered is adding a web server and a database server
**Another option discussed is using a PC to control a "headless" Raspberry Pi (i.e. one without keyboard and without monitor).
==Introduction==
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