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Yes, I own a Beaglebone Black. But the operating system and the ecosystem surrounding it is oh so aweful compared to simply-Debian it-just-works Wheezy for the
by Derbasti 13y ago
Yes, I own a Beaglebone Black. But the operating system and the ecosystem surrounding it is oh so aweful compared to simply-Debian it-just-works Wheezy for the Raspberry Pi.
That probably doesn't matter too much if you are building some embedded thing, but I am mostly using my Pi as a web server, and I like that is so easy to set up and configure.
- joezydeco 13y agoYeah, I agree, Angstrom is awful. I got Debian Wheezy booting off of the Black in under an hour or so. Sorry to hear you had difficulty getting it to work on yours.
- slug 13y agoIt's very easy to install ubuntu on a BBB. I have 13.04 and 13.10, both running from the eMMC and uSD cards. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu I own 1 rpi and 2 BBBs and all work just fine. I have the rpi 24/24h connected to a relay board and other things but tend to prefer the BBB due to the better CPU and easier to keep up to date with regular distros.
- Derbasti 13y agoOK, I'll try that.
- masmullin 13y agoArch linux "JustWorks(tm)" on BBB. Relatively easy to get a server going on it, and lxde running as a GUI isn't too shabby (noticeably better than a GUI on the PI). Only trouble with BBB is the lack of hardware accelerated graphics support (BBB has a graphics chip, but it's not working in any of the current kernels)