Unlike the original poster, I'm not taking offense. People are doing the best they can.
However, I will say that, as a user, spelunking through BeagleBone Black documentation has been kind of painful. If you can stay at the Python/Javascript level, things are quite decent. Even basic Linux stuff is fine. However, once you need to get down into the Linux device level, the number of people who really understand what is going on drops very quickly. And I suspect those vitally important people are so overwhelmed doing real work or paid work and that they really don't have the bandwidth for random documentation and tutorial construction. And, even if they did, how many people would it benefit? Sure, I'd love to have some really detailed tutorials since most of them older than even 6 months generally don't work, but if there are only 5 of us who could make use of those tutorials, is it a good use of time? Especially when there is so much flux right now? I see about 30 BeagleBone Black compatible capes; the fact that some of those don't work directly under Debian shows that even highly knowledgable people don't understand all the implications. So, that bounds the number of people who can talk intelligently about kernel device stuff (and that's of the right order of magnitude for views). That's not a very big pool to draw from. I do agree, however, that the original poster is out of line. Anybody who does real embedded development on OS X knows to keep Windows XP, Windows 7, and Linux virtual machines on tap. If it works directly on OS X, that's a nice bonus, but counting on it is just asking for trouble--and OS X 10.10 has been a general disaster on many fronts. On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 6:10:51 PM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Andrew P. Lentvorski <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > To be fair, ranting at least got him a response. > > > > Lots of people seem to be asking questions and I see like single digit > views > > and no responses. > > > > It feels like a ghost town in here. > > Well the unfortunate side of open source.. Most developers are not > paid to answer just questions. Instead they are here on their own free > time. So unless you entice them with an interesting topic/question, > they aren't going to take time to answer it. > > Sorry if this offends anyone. > > btw, google groups also emails these "topics" to registered users, so > just because the "forum" interface shows a few "views" doesn't > actually show the whole story.. Some of us read every 'email' and > answer where we can. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > > -- 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.
