Conky is a Linux system monitor tool using X Windows.  Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail in-boxes, Linux updates, runs many popular music players, and much more.

In this article, I use a tool called WebIOPi, I control my Raspberry Pi, and the things its networked with, via an internet browser. With this, you can control and monitor GPIO using Python scripts.

I show here how to configure your Raspberry Pi and your Microsoft Windows based PC, so they share the same display monitor. Using the powers of X Window, the Raspberry Pi Linux applications and MS Windows programs can work side-by-side.

This is how I setup the software source code control envirnment for my Arduino and Raspberry Pi work. I'm making use of the distributed version control system Git and it cloud based repository, GitHub.

At some point its time to build the software foundation that you'll need to make it an effective development environment on the Raspberry Pi. These are the packages that I loaded to get myself up and running.

I capture here some diagrams and descriptions of the Raspberry Pi hardware design to make it easy to referance.

I'll take you through the very first steps I perfromed in setting up my Raspberry Pi using Adafuits's Occidentalis distribution. I set up ssh and log into the Raspberry Pi over my LAN using X Windows.

This article provides a listing of online resources you can leverage to get started with your Raspberry Pi. It take you through what is a RPi, how to set it up, and some basic tutorals.