William, Thanks for the comments. Yes, I am in the same position as you...a year on. I've not touched Linux in any serious way for a long time. I have been involved in a number of commercial deployments that target CentOS/RHEL. My role was that of a Java server developer, so I didn't get all that close to the metal. I am just recently coming off of 3 years of serious Android development work and hoping to transition to some embedded stuff (Android and/or embedded Linux) professionally over the next couple of years. So, I do appreciate your input.
FWIW, I am thinking that things _might_ have changed a bit since you last looked. I'm using Mint-17 self described on their release page as: Linux Mint 17 features Cinnamon 2.2, MDM 1.6, a Linux kernel 3.13 and an Ubuntu 14.04 package base. Apparently this is not LMDE...that is a different distribution that the Mint folks offer (and yes, that is still Debian testing, assuming jessie). I remember reading up on Mint changing directions a bit in the not too far distant past, concentrating on improving UI on top of a core Ubuntu distro. So far, so good. Nice UI, performant enough. No problems with package conflicts. Regarding the usbnet stuff, I read your response to be that usbnet offers the potential for a higher bandwidth connection than available over the Ethernet jack on the BBB. Correct? All other things being the same? That is, NFS rootfs mount, TFTP, ... Cheers, ba -- 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.