Post Installation
On the first start, we see Rhino Setup, a utility that lets you start configuring the new system. Before running the wizard, it’s best to perform a system update at the earliest opportunity. Issue the command:
$ rhino-pkg update -y
rhino-pkg is a custom package management wrapper written in Bash.
This command updates all packages from any package managers you have installed. There are 132 packages to install and a whopping 1145 packages to be upgraded. That’s not unexpected for a rolling release distro.
Even though we’re using a fast full fibre broadband connection, the FIREBAT’s Wi-Fi is so terrible it only uses a fraction of the available bandwidth. While the first few packages downloaded at only 3.5MB/s we did get slightly over 20 MB/s for most of the update. After the process is completed, reboot the system.
Next, go through the Rhino Setup wizard.
First, we’re offered the choice of a light or dark theme. We’ll go with the light theme.
Next, we can choose which additional package manager to use. We’ll go with Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage. That should cover most bases when installing software.
There are a few extra settings. We recommend installing Nala. What’s Nala? Well, it’s an alternative front-end to APT (which itself is a front-end to dpkg). Nala offers almost all the functionality of APT with some welcome extras such as parallel downloading to speed up installing/upgrading the system, interactive history, and a mirror tool that finds the fastest mirrors for you.
The final step of the wizard is to apply your chosen config to the system.
Once this is completed we’re prompted to reboot your system. We recommend updating the system once more, again with the command:
$ rhino-pkg update -y
Let’s see how much disk space is used.
The /dev/sda2 filesystem is consuming 8.4GB of disk space. Tons of storage available for installing our favourite Linux apps. For example, to install GIMP, a raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, issue the command:
$ rhino-pkg install gimp
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction
Page 2 – Installation
Page 3 – Post Installation
Page 4 – Video
Complete list of articles in this series:
| FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with an interrogation of the system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Testing the power consumption |
| Part 4 | Multimedia: Watching videos and listening to music |
| Part 5 | How does the FIREBAT fare as a gaming PC? |
| Part 6 | Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 |
| Part 7 | Installing and Configuring EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distro |
| Part 8 | Installing and Configuring Rhino Linux, a rolling release Ubuntu-based distro |
| Part 9 | VirtualBox performance on the FIREBAT |