[beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-26 Thread rchrdlyon1
My Observations: - A large amount Linux documentation is out-of-date. - Take any advice from a newsgroup with a degree of skepticism - It seems like for every hour spent coding, more than hour is spent retrieving information and resolving Beagle/Linux issues. - Linux is not a

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-26 Thread Guy Grotke
. about 1000 times the speed of going through the GPIO pin driver.) From: Brandon I Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:31 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged My only real issue that I have no idea what the Angstrom is really capable

[beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-26 Thread jmelson
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:15:54 AM UTC-5, rchrd...@gmail.com wrote: - Linux is not a real-time operating system - Angstrom Linux is OK for embedded applications with soft-real-time constraints - It would be great to have a real-time executive like RTEMS running on

[beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-25 Thread Brandon I
My only real issue that I have no idea what the Angstrom is really capable of and what really comes with it. I think the biggest hurdle for people is they have some embedded mindset with talk of processors and whatnot. Think of this as it is, a resource limited general purpose Linux computer

[beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-21 Thread Thorsten Gonschior
:D thanks for the advice I dont think of me as a converted one, because I am not a believer. Probably just get hands on stuff thats up the day it comes and sometimes it inspires me ... Yea I do use Linux on my PC, caged in a VM ;) Am Freitag, 21. März 2014 00:23:28 UTC+1 schrieb

[beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-21 Thread Piotr Murawski
Sometimes, we joke that the whole free stuff in IT was created be the evil programmers. Kind of the virtual doctor no, to make the world depended on our knowledge, experience, services and ... bring us lot of money. Yes it works! There is more and more Linux everywhere. In my domain - STBs is

[beagleboard] Re: Encouragement for the disencouraged

2014-03-20 Thread briselec
So does that mean we've converted you to Linux? Going to try using it on your pc? -- 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