From: William Hermans <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, August 15, 2014 at 10:28 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Setting up TFTP and NFS
> I do not need to read an article or google John, I've had tons of experience > with both. The problem I have is when you make disparaging remarks about other distros. In reality the other distros work fine and you are only having trouble with them because you haven¹t spent a lot of time with them. I had trouble with Debian, but only because I¹ve spent more time with Ubuntu. I¹m sure if I took the time to work with Debian, it would work fine for me also. If Mint was so bad, no one would be using it; but they have a big following. It just so happens that you and I aren¹t one of them. Regards, John > > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:37 AM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: William Hermans <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 11:55 PM >> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Setting up TFTP and NFS >> >>>> Debian might be perceived as more stable, but it uses old version of almost >>>> every package and the core repository is way smaller than Ubuntu so you >>>> have to hunt around for other repos to find the packages you need and then >>>> Debian becomes less stable. >>> >>> Hunt around for what packages ? In the context of the current discussion >>> I've never had to "hunt" for anything. I've had to compile my own stuff from >>> sources when I wanted something custom . . . Now if you want cutting edge >>> stuff, you're almost certainly going to run into trouble no matter what >>> distro you use. But that is not what we're talking about. We're talking >>> about running a distro in a VM for the sole purpose of supporting the >>> Beaglebone black. >> The following article does a pretty fair comparison of Ubuntu vs Debian. >> >> http://www.udemy.com/blog/debian-vs-ubuntu/ >> >> Just search google for ³Ubuntu vs Debian² and there are many more articles >> that help explain which OS is right for you. >> >> Regards, >> John >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:55 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Brian Anderson <[email protected]> >>>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 12:48 PM >>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Setting up TFTP and NFS >>>> >>>>> >>>>>> If you want my opinion, ditch Linux mint *NOW*. Personally I will not use >>>>>> anything other than Debian for a support system to the BBB, and would >>>>>> NEVER use X for this purpose. Especially in a VM . . . >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah yeah, Linux mint is based on Ubuntu and Debian( testing ) ( >>>>>> depending on version ), but thats part of the problem. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hmmm, OK! Would you like to enumerate why you wouldn't use Mint? I was >>>>> under the impression the Mint-17 is based upon Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and thus >>>>> fairly stable. Personally, I can't stand Unity...but YMMV. What distro >>>>> would you suggest? >>>>> >>>>> Well, at the moment, all I have is my MBP laptop to support this effort. >>>>> So, either I setup NFS on the MAC and hope for the best, or use a VM >>>>> running some Linux. I thought I'd give the VM approach a try as a first >>>>> step in order to not introduce native MAC NFS vagaries into the mix. >>>>> Probably could try that option now that I have things limping along. >>>>> >>>>> When you say NEVER use X, I'm assuming you mean running X windows on a dev >>>>> env (Linux Mint)? I'm not running X on the BBB (well, I do often use X >>>>> forwarding to the MAC/XQuartz for stuff like (gasp) emacs, xterm, ...). >>>>> My thought was to do dev on the MAC (straight away or via a VM) using a >>>>> shared file system between the MAC and BBB so I didn't have to copy files >>>>> around, nor risk loosing everything if the BBB goes toes in the air or the >>>>> uSD craps out. >>>> I have a MBP which I love, but I wouldn¹t use it for development for the >>>> same reasons I wouldn¹t use Windows for development and that is because >>>> neither support case sensitive file system. Also, OSX tools are quite old >>>> and sometime incompatible with their GNU equivalents (options are different >>>> more often than not compared to GNU versions), so you have to use MacPort, >>>> HomeBrew, Fink, etc. Regarding Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, etc, there isn¹t >>>> really much between them other than personal preferences. There are both >>>> benefits and downsides to each, so choose one and stay with it. Truly >>>> speaking, each one needs some work to get it stable and working the way you >>>> want. Debian might be perceived as more stable, but it uses old version of >>>> almost every package and the core repository is way smaller than Ubuntu so >>>> you have to hunt around for other repos to find the packages you need and >>>> then Debian becomes less stable. Ubuntu was a bit flaky for a while, but >>>> 14.04 is much better and the distro I use daily. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'm all ears on suggestions for a good dev setup though! >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> ba >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >> 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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