William, Some good advise to take on board for any future software build/support tasks for the BBB. Any issues that I need to be aware of when running Debian as a virtual machine in VirtualBox?
On 17 June 2014 14:36, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick, > > That's good to hear. The problems I experienced were concerning iSCSI, and > Xen running on the same system. I literally spent a week setting everything > up only to have the whole setup fail silently on the last step. No > recourse, no mention of this problem anywhere. This was back when Ubuntu 11 > was new, and I think I was using 10.10 at the time. Needless to say I was > seriously miffed after spending all this time on this task. In the end, > sadly I wound up using Windows with Microsoft's initiator software. But at > least It worked > > Passed this, at least back then, and at least 1-2 new iteration of Ubuntu > afterwards. Ubuntu's upgrade path was horrendous. Often breaking good, > working installs, assuming it did not flat out fail to begin with. Then the > last debacle that I bothered reading about. Putting google search on your > desktop ? So when you search for files on your system you get results off > the internet too ? Desktop adwords anyone ? At least this is what I read > what was proposed . . . > > Anyway, if you like Mint for a desktop I say more power to you. Just dont > expect it to be a Swiss army knife of distro's. I would seriously suggest > you put Debian in a VM as a support system for the beaglebone black. at the > very least. Then, leave it as CLI only ( no X or any unnecessary stuff like > that ). Your source building life should become much simpler / easier / > better in the long run. > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My own experience with Ubuntu 12.04 on a Tecra M9 wasn't pleasant when it >> came to the stability of the NVidia GPU using the open source driver. Every >> so often X Server would freeze either at the login screen or when logging >> in, if that wasn't the case then it may occur with the next reboot. Using >> the official NVidia driver was far, far, far worse with X Server freezing >> once every 10 seconds every time the laptop was running. >> >> Since switching to Linux Mint 17 on the Tecra absolutely no problems have >> occurred with the stability of the NVidia GPU regardless of the driver used. >> >> >> >> On 17 June 2014 14:05, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well, you know I am not a big fan of Ubuntu. My own personal experiences >>> with it was several years ago, and it wound up going similar to how it >>> seems to be going for Nick here. Which is why l left Angstrom in the ditch >>> over a year ago. >>> >>> e.g. I do not want an OS that argues with me, or wants to fight at every >>> step i take in a custom direction. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/vHmA5ZuYoHw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
