From: William Hermans <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 8:44 PM
To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: What OS to use?
Very little John, but know that MINT has two "inner distro's" You
have regular which is based on Ubuntu, and LMDE which is Linux
Mint Debian Edition( testing branch). I tried LMDE and was not
impressed.
Debian IMHO isn't meant as a desktop OS, although some people use
it as such and it works very well for them. For me Debian is
perfect for how I personally think the BBB *should* be used. Which
is to say, not a desktop replacement.
Thanks William. Ubuntu would be perfect for me if they only dropped
Unity. I hate Unity, but I haven't found anything that works better.
At the moment, I'm using a tool that is based on QT and it crashes
when I use the file dialog (open, save, etc). It doesn't crash every
time, but more often than not. Apparently this is a known issue with
QT and Ubuntu. The vendor was able to reproduce the error, but when
they loaded QT debug symbols, they cannot reproduce the error. I
loaded QT debug symbols and it still crashes for me. What a nightmare.
The vendor says the tools is stable in Debian so that was my I was
looking at Debian.
Regards,
John
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:36 PM, John Syn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
From: William Hermans <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 7:32 PM
To: <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
I've 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 isn't 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 I've 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
I'm missing something here.
Debian is my preferred solution for BBB, but for now I think
I'm 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] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You'll have to define best better.
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:49:31 -0700
Jerry Davis <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
>
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