I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind wanting to run Ubuntu on the Beaglebone hardware. Doing so would present all sort of problems for the end user attempting to replicate what others do with this platform using Debian. Also, while this hardware platform *can* run a desktop environment. It's not really well suited to do so. The experience would be incredibly slow, and potentially problematic.
Now, running Ubuntu on a Beagleboard X15 would probably make for an excellent experience. But we're talking 4x the system memory, with a multi core processor that is much faster. Additionally, if one wants to run Ubuntu CLI( command line interface only ), then one needs to understand that there would really be no benefit compared to Debian. In fact, as mentioned above. Imposing such a "restriction" on yourself would be potentially very problematic. The only beneficial difference here would be Ubuntu's different packages, which may, or may not be newer in nature. For the beaglebone hardware however, this is largely if not completely moot, and unnecessary. The money thing I get though. They're just wanting their developers to get paid. Which as a developer myself, I like to get paid too. However, in this case where we're talking armhf as the platform ABI. I'm not sure why they would want more money for something they're already doing for the rPI, and multiple other platforms. Maybe they're talking specifically about the beaglebone hardware abstraction . . . but seriously. Everything the beaglebone has in hardware is already supported, Otherwise those who are using older versions of Ubuntu successfully, would not be so successful. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:25 PM, evilwulfie <evilwul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good reasons to stick with Debian i would say. > > On 12/18/2016 12:23 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:38 PM, 'Luther Goh Lu Feng' via BeagleBoard > > <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I am having a conversation with the Ubuntu Core community to figure out > how > >> to get BBB supported in the long run. I am posting the thread link here > in > >> case anyone is interested in this as well > >> > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snapcraft/2016-December/002086.html > > Dealing with Canonical on anything long run requires $... > > > > They rely on $ from support requests, by having this vibrant > > self-sufficient community, that blows there whole profit opportunity. > > > > In the past Canonical has talked to us before about a special Blessed > > BeagleBone image.. BUT they wanted "us" to support "it"... Each time > > I've said No, if you want "our" support on anything, you have to have > > a ubuntu developer helping users in our forum.. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/5afb4cc1-da54-f026-8103-8ca55bcdee62%40gmail.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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORoQp0giYr9z8%2B3mHcb%3D2nwVseLZ9vssjmHermTZ_gMnPg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
