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I got my 1GB board yesterday.  I thought it would be delayed as I had added some options in Backerkit, but the mainboard, wifi module and power button arrived.  Glad I was home, did not know that a signature would be required!

I flashed the SD card with lenny.raposo's Debian MATE image, and learned the lesson about power supplies early.  I tried it first with an old BlackBerry charger, which starts to work but then the unit just freezes during boot, probably when starting the desktop.  Swapped it out with my Kindle Fire charger and it boots fine.  So now I've ordered a Pi3 power supply.

Debian looks great, seems to run pretty fast.  LibreOffice opens quickly.  When browsing on this Firefox derivative (Ice Weasel) I accidentally clicked on a Youtube link... I though there was no way it was actually going to load the video, that I'd be missing at least some plugins, but it actually came up.  A bit jerky, and I don't have speakers hooked up yet to hear the audio, but still.  I still love the Raspberry Pi but I never had Raspbian be as functional as this out of the box!  Am looking forward to putting this to use, somehow.   Still formulating ideas.