Top 10 Tweaks After Installing Rasbian

Jayden Chua
The Startup
Published in
5 min readMar 31, 2020

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Different versions of Raspberry Pis

Here is a list of tweaks to make right after installing Rasbian on your Rasberry Pi.

Right. Before we start, some housekeeping out of the way; unless otherwise mentioned, the commands that we execute here will be ran on the Rasberry via ssh.

Incase you haven’t installed the latest Rasbian on your Raspberry pi, have a look here.

1. Create A ‘ChangeLog’

I think this is a good practice, it helps to keep things in place. Many times, we forget what we change and tinker along the way. Getting in the habit of writing down what we changed is a nice idea.

A ‘ChangeLog’ could look something the following.

# rPi_z Log

## General Information

### Model



### IP



### SMB Address



### Location



## Log

- **21/03/2020:** Started baking this pi.

2. Change the Raspberry Default Password

This should be the first thing you do I guess. It’s a no-brainer. Use the following command to change the password of the…

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Jayden Chua
The Startup

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