Can anyone recommend a supplier for a turnkey headless Raspberry Pi 2 preinstalled with enough of Linux for me to do some program development on it - primarily in C - without having to configure it in any way that would need a display?
I am currently away from home and have no access to an HDMI display. So I would like a RPi which "just works" - i.e. comes pre-installed and which can get its IP address from a DHCP server so that I can just telnet (preferably) or ssh (not so good) to it from a Windows laptop. (The laptop does not have a video-in port, before someone asks.)
I want to use the Pi for software development so it would need to have the usual development programs installed - gcc, make, ld etc. Python could also be handy. I can download other packages but bandwidth here is limited so it would be better if it came preinstalled with most things.
For package management I would prefer apt-get over any of the others that I have come across.
Oh, and it would be handy if it came with Samba preinstalled so that I can map a drive to the Pi from Windows.
I don't need a windowing system on it. Samba and telnet access is all I would need for access to the Pi.
I could plug a USB keyboard and an ethernet cable into it and otherwise it pretty-much has to be accessible out of the box: I would have no way to deal with error messages on a non-existent screen.
Any recommendations?
James