If you were underwhelmed by the Pi, it might be that you got it for the wrong reasons. If you were lucky enough to nab one of the first units, odds are you were either amazed or utterly disappointed by what arrived in the mail. However, on the night of release, all distributor sites where slammed with a glut of requests.
Initially, the Raspberry Pi was seeded out as an early developer release, with hopes of gaining early support from the development community. Follow past the break and we'll show you how to set yours up now that you've actually succeeded in snagging one. The Raspberry Pi is truly the Linux device of the year, if not the past decade. Fast forward to today, and you can finally get your hands on one within three weeks.
The night it became available to order, both Premier Farnell/element14 and RS Components, the official distributors of the Pi project, exhibited the signs of a late '90s Slashdot effect: you could barely even get the two sites to load.
When the Raspberry Pi was released earlier this year, the credit-card-sized Linux machine became an instant hit.
