I too, find arch to be a superior distro for beaglebone. I like it above the ubuntu or angstrom distros because 1) using the 3.12 kernel + regular kernel updates from pacman 2) installing a gui is easy and it works. I have not had success installing a GUI on ubuntu. The lxde desktop seems a wee bit faster on arch vs debian, but this is hardly objective. 3) starting to enjoy the systemctl stuff that arch uses
I prefer apt-get to pacman. One thing though. A system upgrade completely hosed my raspberry pi running arch (hosed = segmentation faults on such apps as ls && cp), so I am a bit scared about the stability of arch, so if I was doing something important I might chose debian instead. On Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:34:33 AM UTC-5, don wrote: > > On 11/28/2013 02:12 AM, William Hermans wrote: > > In a lot of cases the difference is only going to be a matter of taste. > However, i think you'll find documentation for some distro's far superior > to others. > > I agree that some distros docs are way better than others. Which is why > I got with Arch Linux ARM. the Arch wiki is one of if not the best. > > Speed wise as fast or better. > > As to whether one distro boots faster than another I think that > sentiment to be incorrect. If one distro boors faster than another that is > because *you* made it that way. e.g. there is a lot that one can do on any > distribution to make it do X, Y, or Z. It is your responsibility to figure > out *how*. > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:35 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Here is my experience which is not much compared to some members in >> this forum... >> >> >> 1. Fast booting, lot of people have mentioned that ubuntu has a slow >> boot up speed compared to Angstrom. The boot and shutdown speed of the >> default version of Angstrom is quite fast. >> 2. Hardware support may be limited. I was unable to use my netgear wifi >> dongle and a huawei 3G dongle. I think ubuntu should support these. I think >> android should be better here. >> >> In my opinion if you want to just use a headless system then angstrom >> will be best choice.. >> >> thanks >> a >> >> Angstrom >> >> >> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:09:08 AM UTC+5:30, [email protected]: >>> >>> Can someone please clarify for me some of the reasons one would put >>> Angstom vs ubuntu or android on the BBB. >>> I have no intention to ever have a monitor or mouse connected to my >>> board. I just want to use it as an headless embedded system to monitor and >>> control things. >>> >>> >>> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
