For what it is worth. I got my beaglebone black last year when they were first being sold to the public( we had two on pre-order). At the time I was working with the MSP430 launchpad, and talking back and forth with several people from this community about the BBB as we all were learning.
What I found is that Angstrom was counter productive when it came to do almost anything. NO documentation that I could find, and everything was like pulling teeth. Much like how many Linux distributions were 10+ years ago . . . Personally I prefer forward progress with any OS I do use. So after about a week of trying to no avail, I found Roberts compile from source instructions for Debian. Since then, I have never looked back. Everything is solid. Granted you may not get the package list an x86 distro may have, but that has everything to do with the architecture, and nothing to do with the distro. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Eric Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks > > I will have one BBB for data acquisition (temp, light levels, other) and > they will be on wifi initially. Maybe ZigBee later. The other one will be > in a robot I am building that will be about 16 inches round and maybe a > foot high. Steppers, Servos, motors and a video camera (openCV). If I need > more than one BBB I am fine with that. > > I got my first BBB today and am installing wheezy 7.2 on it now. I found > angstrom a touchy form the start. > > Thanks > > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, si c <[email protected]> wrote: > >> while not shifting from OS to OS as you may want to do, i can share my >> experience with you. >> >> i tried to follow a lot of the documentation that comes with the BBB and >> angstrom. and on two different BBB platforms i had the same issues with >> both boards, broken angstrom packages etc, problem after problem, almost >> enough hair pulling and dead ends to make me throw the BBB in the bin for >> good. >> >> and the god bless em, R.C Nelson comes to the party. >> >> since i install debian and followed his doco basically all i had to do >> was get the os on the emmc then run two or three scripts that were >> downloaded and volia i have a happy BBB doing what i want it too, zero >> problems and reasonable learning curve. plus everyone else has tried his >> image theres a log of doco and help on the groups here. Plus, Robert will >> nudge you in the right direction if you ask too. always helpful. >> >> maybe Eric if you specify what you want to do down the road people can >> share their experiences, my BBB just streams data to a NAS. i run a gui on >> it (lxde) on a rce debian special. >> >> good luck, i would put it to you to try one the rcn debian images he's >> put together for a better initial experience. >> > > > > -- > Eric Palmer > > -- > 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.
