From: rjc2827 <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 5:00 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [beagleboard] Resources for a new user
> I'm a new user. Reading this board has brought me a wealth of useful > information, but I could use a similar resource that can help me with the more > basic pieces such as general Linux stuff, utilities like make, compiling, and > generally finding my way around. I've put PuTTY on my Windows Vista PC and am > working fairly well from the shell command line, and have done some controlled > LED pulsing using Python code that I wrote under Cloud 9, but am still short > of building and running effective shell scripts, and stand-alone programs of > my own. I have two requests ... > > 1) Can you offer a link (or links) that might take me to site suitable for a > computer programming literate (but Linux naive) user? > > 2) I've signed up for local "Introduction to Linux" course that will be > based on running a Mint distro (not on a BBB or equivalent), under its "Mate" > GUI. I would like to know if I can get (or if I already have without knowing > it), a GUI for Debian that I can use on the BBB, and in general terms, how I > would get it installed. It's not even clear to me at this point, whether or > not such a GUI would actually be running on my PC or on the BBB. My current > set up is with my PC providing power and interface to the BBB with the simple > USB cable that came with my BBB. If using a GUI would be sensitive to whether > I'm running a 3.8.x vs 3.14.x core (or whatever), now might be the best time > to make a comment on that too. This book covers just about everything you will need. http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-BeagleBone-Techniques-Building-Embedded/dp/1 118935128/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422929780&sr=8-1&keywords=Beagleboneblack& pebp=1422929783726&peasin=1118935128 Regards, John > > Thanks > Bob > -- > 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.
