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Graphic interface with Arch ARM/Debian on RPI

I am a student and my laptop just broke. Due to my lack of money I am thinking to buy a RPI. What I wonder is how well a graphical interface would run on RPI if I install Arch Arm or Debian. The ...
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Pi disconnecting from network after bootup

There seems to be a (very small) time winodw when my pi will let me ssh to it. I got my computer to accept the new key and prompt for my password once (so it did connect), but I had forgotten to ...
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Asus USB N10 wireless scans but doesn't connect Wheezy or Arch

I am trying to setup my wireless dongle for my pi but it will not connect. It is an Asus USB N10 recommended by many users. It has the drivers built into both arch and Wheezy but I cannot get it to ...
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How do I install distcc?

I have read How to build a GCC 4.7 toolchain for cross-compiling? and have successfully built a simple test program that works on my RPi. To do this, I had to run arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc ...
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What are the benefits of using Arch Linux over the standard Debian build?

From the Raspberry Pi downloads page: Debian “squeeze” If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Gray and Dom, containing ...
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Is it possible to run a DHCP server?

Our home router is terrible at remembering configured static IPs, I'd like to use my RasPi instead. Is there anything particular I need to consider when setting it up?
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What are the file download sizes for the OS's available on raspberrypi.org? [closed]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads currently has 3 linux distributions for download: Debian “squeeze” (recommended for people "just starting out") Arch Linux ARM QtonPi Unfortunately they don't ...