Getting your hands on a Raspberry Pi opens up a remarkable world of computing projects – from media centers and NAS boxes to Android emulation, robotics, retro gaming, and software development.
To do these things, you’ll need to know how to install software on the Pi. Typically shipping without a microSD card, this also means you’ll need to know how to install the main software: the operating system.
Neither of these tasks is particularly difficult, but if the Raspberry Pi is your first taste of Linux, they might seem unfamiliar.