From: William Hermans <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 7:32 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: What OS to use?
> To be sure, there is more than what little i mentioned. In the PC world Ubuntu > is known as the user friendly Debian based distro, where Debian is light > weight, known to be super solid and preferred for servers / mission critical > applications. > > However in the case of the BBB I think the differences are considerably > blurred by comparison. Since we're not very likely to run Compiz for a > "beautiful" desktop on our BBB's, and numerous other points. I¹ve always used Ubuntu for my Desktop and over the last few releases, Ubuntu has become more flaky so I had heard that Debian is rock solid as you said. I started out with Debian Wheezy 7.4 and noticed that the kernel was still at V3.2 which seems really old. What I also noticed is the Debian package manager isn¹t as comprehensive as Ubuntu and I have to track down tons of third party repos to get the packages I needed. I also had issues with the nouveau driver for my Nvidia 670 card so I installed the Nvidia native driver and that seemed to work better. From what I¹ve read, the Debian Testing repo is also very reliable (better than Ubuntu) so I updated and now the kernel is v3.13. BTW, I found Gnome on Debian to be flaky (both on Wheezy and Sid). For example, updating the desktop background causes a segfault. This is a known issue and there are several suggesting workarounds, but no fixes yet. Maybe I¹m missing something here. Debian is my preferred solution for BBB, but for now I think I¹m going to stick with flaky Ubuntu for my Desktop. Anyone have any experience with MINT? Regards, John > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:02 PM, David Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 04/22/2014 07:15 PM, William Hermans wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Actually, the best is the one you want to use most. So, in other words, >>> you're asking a subjective question. >>> >>> >>> The kernel between Ubuntu and Debian is the same, the only difference is >>> the rootfs, where Ubuntu uses upstart, while Debian uses a more traditional >>> init.d init daemon. >>> >>> >>> If you do not have much hands on with either, then either would probably >>> work fine for you. My own personal preference is Debian, because I have had >>> years of hands on with it. >>> >>> >> Also with Debian, you can use systemd. Just add the option to uEnv.txt as >> follows: >> >> #Optional arguments >> optargs=init=/bin/systemd >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:09 PM, rh_ <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> You'll have to define best better. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:49:31 -0700 >>>> Jerry Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> > Just got my B^3 and have heard that Angstrom is not a very good OS. >>>>> > I will be using it for projects (I2C, A/D, and GPIO), with Adafruit's >>>>> > GPIO python module. >>>>> > >>>>> > Which one is the best? Ubuntu, Debian, other? >>>>> > >>>>> > Jerry >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ >>>>> > Registered Linux User: 275424 >>>>> > Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer >>>>> > >>>>> > There are 10 kinds of people in the world: >>>>> > Those who can read binary and those who can't. >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>>> > [email protected]. 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