On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Charles Steinkuehler <char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > On 3/27/2014 3:26 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> Thanks to everyone for testing the beta images! >> >> In this last last week window I've rolled in many of your changes. >> >> So please continue to use the bug tracker: >> http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/debian-image-releases > > I haven't been able to get the elinux bug tracker to let me post > anything, so forgive me for posting a few comments here. These are from > the 3/19 image, so I apologize if any have been addressed, and they > mostly fall under "personal preference" rather than actual bugs. > > * I like to add console=tty0 so startup kernel messages go to both the > serial console and to the HDMI screen, if connected. While less > information is displayed with systemd than previously, if the kernel > hangs for some reason at boot this could avoid the need for a serial > cable which a lot of people won't have.
I think i'm going to enable this too.. > * Given the target audience, I would add a terminal short-cut on the > application launch bar next to the web browser. It's not hard to get to > on the menu, but that's one of the first changes I made to the 3/19 image. Sounds like a nice addon, do you have an example i can pull in? > * I'm not sure who made the black desktop background, but I find it > horrid (just the black part...the beagle is cute!) and would much rather > see something lighter. I'm not aware of any other GUI environment that > ships with a black background as default, and out of all the > professional programmers I know, only one uses this sort of color scheme. I stole it from the Angstrom image. We just got to be careful, as it's only 16bit, so some colors combos look odd. > I'm working through the process of trying to install MachineKit / > LinuxCNC via packages (including the kernel and Xenomai user-mode), and > will switch to the new image for further testing. > > Keep up the great work! Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
