On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:00 PM, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: > As a new comer to the BeagleBone one of my biggest challenges has been > related to the numerous choice of operating systems for the board. > Based on the various threads on this and other lists, it does not seem > that I am alone.
I agree with Gerald, but I'll try to address some of your concerns from my perspective as well. The variety and changing nature of software does create some support challenges. Part of our strategy has been to make BeagleBoard.org hardware a first-class citizen of various community software projects. In that light, you can get lots of support for those projects in their normal support channels and come here to figure out the BeagleBoard/BeagleBone-specific details. > > Would be possible to achieve consensus around a single OS as the ref > Operating System for the BBB? While I support individuals freely > choosing which distribution best meets their needs, the overall > project would be best served by focusing on the foundation. > > Shipping the BBB rev C with Debian starts to set Debian as the defacto > standard. A reference, certainly. Not sure what the implication is of a "defacto standard". All operating systems are welcome here. > > 1. Would it be possible/reasonable to suggest that other BeagleBone > users migrate from Angstrom to Debian? Possible, yes. Reasonable, depends. If Angstrom does what you need, then why not stay with it? > 2. Would it be possible/reasonable to articulate that the BeagleBone > community will focus their development and support efforts on Debian? The community is diverse and supports many software systems. There's some focus on Debian, but we should be working with Fedora, Arch, FreeBSD and lots of others too. There is a bit of a BeagleBone out-of-box-experience, but it is meant as just a gateway on to deeper learning and development. > 3. Would it be possible/reasonable to suggest that support on this > mailing list will focus on Debian? No. We try to avoid forking lists when when can. Impressions of that have been mixed, but I think if there is enough interest in creating a Debian support list focused on BeagleBone Black, then someone will make it and attract community members there. Personally, I like having this one list with all the topics and relying on people to create reasonable subject lines. Folks can tag messages as well to put them in various categories. > > My concern is that with out clear community consensus, the BBB faces > unnecessary fragmentation which would reduce that value of the project Is there a specific contribution you are looking at making? > > David > > -- > 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.
