Re: [beagleboard] recommended linux distribution for BBB ?

2014-12-03 Thread Don deJuan
On 12/02/2014 09:48 PM, ivo welch wrote: dear bbb experts. for the beaglebone black: I was playing around with the ubuntu 14.04 and 13.10 images, but this may not be the right route. (on ubuntu, I can't get the fb to work right, X is not installed, and it does not come up as

Re: [beagleboard] recommended linux distribution for BBB ?

2014-12-03 Thread ivo welch
thank you. it is good to have this info here, because it will be more easy to google. I just searched a while longer on google to see where I overlooked obvious info on the recommended distro. it definitely isn't that obvious. all I could find was that since april, the BBB ships with

Re: [beagleboard] recommended linux distribution for BBB ?

2014-12-03 Thread William Hermans
ivo, heh welcome to the old person memory failing club. But really most of this information sticks when you're very active in using the hardware / Linux distribution in question. The only real differences between these Linux hardware platform wise are all related to boot loaders. Otherwise, so

Re: [beagleboard] recommended linux distribution for BBB ?

2014-12-03 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:28 AM, ivo welch ivo...@gmail.com wrote: thank you. it is good to have this info here, because it will be more easy to google. I just searched a while longer on google to see where I overlooked obvious info on the recommended distro. it definitely isn't that

RE: [beagleboard] recommended linux distribution for BBB ?

2014-12-03 Thread William Pretty Security
Hey Ivo Here is the two versions I use: bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz Good luck ! Bill No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. All that is necessary for the triumph