There isn't an *official* distribution, though Angstrom does get some special treatment with being included in-the-box. That in-the-box aspect has been the only planned special treatment of Angstrom, though Koen's time in supporting it and customizing it to host "the BeagleBone experience" has been greatly appreciated and added a lot to the Beagle community.
The BeagleBone experience includes: * having a good locally hosted toolchain supporting C, C++, Python, Perl, JavaScript and others to come, * included documentation with drivers, * a USB client driver with mass-storage to share the documentation and virtual Ethernet to enable ssh and http connections, * CapeMgr plus DTBO files for registered capes to configure pins and drivers, * and the BoneScript library and server (with expectations for C++ and Python libraries moving forward). We've been working with Debian folks and Robert Nelson on providing this experience on Debian, along with updating to a 3.12.x kernel and making sure there is good documentation on configuring WiFi over USB. I've also been playing around with flashing via Buildroot as a way to make an image that could flash multiple distributions. Before any final decision on making a move to Debian on production in-the-box images could be made, we'd need to have release candidates that provide the above features and extensive community testing. We'd certainly expect to see continued Angstrom support and want to reiterate that the Angstrom site is simply undergoing a move. However, the community does seem to be pushing the project in the direction of Debian. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:31 PM, David Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > > > the Angstrom website is in the process of being moved to a new hosting site. > it should be back up to full implementation shortly... > > Dave > > > > On Monday, December 2, 2013 7:53:56 AM UTC-6, David wrote: >> >> Is Angstrom still the "official" distribution for the Beaglebone? It >> appears that the Angstrom site recently has been reduced to a bare-bones >> version. Does this indicate lack of support? If so, which distribution >> is likely to replace it? >> >> Dave. >> > -- > 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. -- 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.
