In the long ago times, when phones still flipped and modems sang proudly the songs of their people, I sent away for a set of Slackware CDs ... to bring your own Raspberry Pi Zero to complete ...

TL;DR: The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is out now. This latest model includes 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 running at 1.2 GHz. It’s a usable desktop computer.

Then again, so does any desktop or laptop. Where you run into some trouble with a Raspberry Pi is the Linux operating system it runs on, because it uses a microSD card. That leaves your computer a ...