From: William Hermans <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 12:39 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] path of least resistance to Debian
> I can not disagree more with John on this last point. If you need a support > system for Debian, use Debian as the support system. Also, stay away from > using X, and Window managers if you can help it. I wasn¹t suggesting that anyone use Ubuntu for development, I was just describing my own setup. BTW, I did try Debian Wheezy and it didn¹t go very well. First my Nvidia GTX670 didn¹t work with the open source driver given that I have 3 x 30 inch Dell monitors. I was somewhat surprised that Debian is still using Linux Kernel V3.2 and I had to hunt around for so many repositories to get just the basic tools I need. I¹m no fan of Ubuntu, but for now it does the job for me and I¹m familiar with it. One more thing, developing on Windows is a nightmare given NTFS which is case insensitive. Regards, John > > > Cross compiling from Windows does work, I've had this working since early on, > but for most ( some ? ) people this is probably less than optimal. Definitely > if you're using OSX as your desktop. > > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:51 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: Brian Lloyd <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 at 6:51 PM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] path of least resistance to Debian >> >>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:42 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> #1 Personally I would run from a uSD card to make sure it is what you want. >>>> Plus it doesnt hurt to run from the sd card, unless you do not have a uSD >>>> card + sd card adapter, and do not care to spend money on this. >>> >>> I have a 16GB uSD card to run from. Just wondering what the pros and cons >>> are. Seems that the cons are worry that the eMMC will reach its write limit. >>> I don't think that will be an issue for my application as I intend to use >>> the BBB as an embedded system. (See below.) >>> >>>> >>>> #2 I'll defer to someone else, as I am not a MAC person. >>> >>> Mac is just FreeBSD once you are in the shell (for the most part). There are >>> worse places to be. ;-) >> There are some incompatibilities with OSX, but if you use ³MacPort² or >> ³HomeBrew² or ³Fink² to get the GNU tool versions. Since the GNU version are >> the same as Debian or Ubuntu, the same instructions will work on Mac. >>> >>>> >>>> #3 NO idea where you got this impression. All the instructions I've seen >>>> are *NIX based, and I *DO* personally run Windows for my own desktop >>>> environment. >>> >>> I couldn't find any instructions other than for doing it from Windows until >>> I was pointed to the Adafruit site. >>> >>>> >>>> #4 You would have to boot up via uSD to write out the eMMC I believe. >>> >>> I now have Debian running from the uSD card and it is working just peachy. >>> Attempts to copy the eMMC version to the eMMC didn't work but I only want >>> that as a backup to the uSD. Eventually I will probably want to run from >>> eMMC when I close everything up and shove it into a rack. >>> >>>> >>>> You may want to consider dedicating a machine, or perhaps use virtualbox to >>>> have a Debian wheezy i386 support system. This really depends on how >>>> serious you are. As an example, I compile my own kernel based on Robert >>>> Nelsons instructions, and build a custom rootfs also based on his bare >>>> rootfs stuff. Which I mount rootfs over our network ( to prevent me from >>>> ruining flash media while I experiment / tweak various things ). >>> >>> Thank you. I may go that route. I have a couple of machines I plan to >>> dedicate to Linux (one is already running ubuntu -- not sure that is going >>> to stay that way). Is there a good cross-development environment or is it >>> just as easy to build on the BBB itself? >> The only issue preventing me from using OSX for all my BBB development is >> Linaro does not have a cross compiler for OSX. Also >> OpenEmbedded/Angstrom/Yocto do not work on OSX. Since running Robert Nelson¹s >> scripts depend on Linaro, you cannot use his build scripts either. For now I >> use an Ubuntu 14.04 box. You might want to consider Parallels and install >> Ubuntu x64 which works great. >> >> Regards, >> John >>> >>> The project right now is turning the BBB into a GPS-disciplined NTP server. >>> The plan is to have a local UTC display (I think Nixies would be cool for >>> that classic retro look but 7-segment LED displays would be OK too and >>> easier to drive) and eventually use it to discipline my Rubidium reference >>> as well. >>> >>> -- >>> Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL >>> 706 Flightline Drive >>> Spring Branch, TX 78070 >>> [email protected] >>> +1.916.877.5067 <tel:%2B1.916.877.5067> >>> -- >>> 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/d/optout. >> -- >> 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/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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