Raspberry PI without the Desktop?

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Churchill replied

3 September 2015, 06:22
Originally posted by Contreras View Post

Beaglebone Black is the new Raspberry Pi.

Yocto will roll your own distro.

There may be more suityable answers once the requirements have been fully stated.

Beaglebone-black is under-powered compared with the Raspi 2.

OP, try installing Ubuntu, you have the option to later install a desktop.

Spod.
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kyber replied

21 August 2015, 13:31
Take a look on the Raspian site where there are various images available, including (in most cases) descriptions of how they went about putting a particular image together.

https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianImages

To boot to command line instead of desktop on the standard build, open a terminal and run raspi-config where you will find an option to not load the graphical desktop. (Or you can edit the init files directly.)
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Pondlife replied

2 August 2015, 10:38
IIRC there is an option when you do the initial config to boot to command line only.

Edit : here https://www.raspberrypi.org/document...aspi-config.md
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Contreras replied

2 August 2015, 09:57
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Is it possible to have a PI just boot into a command line based programming shell? Syntax highlighting in a black screen. Basic Linux shell underneath for file operations.

Is there a basic distro for this or will I have to roll my own?

Beaglebone Black is the new Raspberry Pi.

Yocto will roll your own distro.

There may be more suityable answers once the requirements have been fully stated.
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Sysman replied

2 August 2015, 06:58
You can switch it on or off whenever you want. I can't remember how I did it but something along these lines:

Boot without starting X-server
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SpontaneousOrder replied

31 July 2015, 18:00
The default raspbian they suggest you download gives you a choice in the installer whether to have the gui or not.
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MasterBlaster replied

31 July 2015, 10:06
Raspberry PI without the Desktop?

Yes there is.

Have a look at Arch: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi

That's a basic distro that gives you a shell. You'll need to install your ide of choice and any compilers you need.
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suityou01 started a topic Raspberry PI without the Desktop?

31 July 2015, 09:37
Raspberry PI without the Desktop?

Is it possible to have a PI just boot into a command line based programming shell? Syntax highlighting in a black screen. Basic Linux shell underneath for file operations.

Is there a basic distro for this or will I have to roll my own?
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