"Linux" is not a platform, in the way that, say, Window32 or MacOS X are. You can't write a program to run "on Linux". Linux is a program that allows you to create platforms. You might download, for example, the Ubuntu Gnu/Linux operating system for your x86 PC (or perhaps the 64-bit version), and the you would be able to download and run programs written for that platform. Other distributions may or may not be similar enough to allow you to run a program written for one on another; if not, you'll have to "port" the program, which means modifying its source code and recompiling it for the new platform. The BBB can run several platforms: Android, Angstrom Linux, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, and so on. Also note that it has a ARM processor, so it runs the ARM versions of those. So programs written to run on the platform "Debian Linux/ARM" will generally run (this is the same platform as the Raspberry PI, for example). But of course there are also hardware differences: programs that use the video or sound hardware of the PI may not apply to the BBB which is more limited in that area.
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:25:19 PM UTC-7, wowra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have 1 question before I buy a Beagle Bone Black. It might seem stupid, > but does it run every linux program? I know it's a development board, and > that's where I got confused. -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
