From: William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 9:17 PM To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBoard SBC Goes OEM, COM Version Coming
> Funny how these articles always seem to report stuff that's either incorrect > or not entirely accurate. > > I think the overlying information given by the site is nice to know ( such as > new hardware being released ), but their actual write-ups are nothing more > than FUD. The article you linked to had several points of misinformation, such > as the BBB's processor speed ( but somehow they managed to get it right in the > table of board differences ). > > Anyway, the board sound interesting, but personally I think they went the > wrong direction in removing the eMMC. and am pretty sure it can be disabled > via device tree overlays if additional IO's are needed ( which really wont > give you many back anyway.).HDMI on the other hand, I'd never miss. Looks like the same board as the BBB with the eMMC and HDMI chips not populated. I¹m sure Gerald & circuitco have analyzed the market requirement and this is what the market wants. If you have the numbers, I¹m sure they will manufacture a batch with the eMMC populated or you could always add it yourself. > > > Don't even get me started with "Angstrom is prefered by most / more > professional developers . . ." Because that is plain B.S. Also the statement > "Moving to the more user friendly Debian > . . ." Is fairly hilarious. Mainly because many long time users of other > distro's seem to have a hard time grasping the concepts of a more traditional > Linux distro like Debian. For the record though this statement is accurate as > Debian actually has real / proper documentation. Where Angstrom falls flat on > its face > > I could go on, and on, but the fact is that "real professionals" are going to > use what makes the most sense for their project. If they want small, Angstrom > is probably the last thing in their minds. QNX, or Busybox on a microkernel > come to mind far ahead of anything else. > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:44 PM, John Syn <john3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/777154-beaglebone-sbc- >> goes-oem-com-version-coming >> >> Interesting how we are the last to know about this! >> >> Regards, >> >> John >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
