Does anyone have a few good tips on deciding between Angstrom and Ubuntu for the BB?
I've been using Angstrom on my BB A6 for more than a year now, and I'm getting pretty sick of its shenanigans. The Angstrom website has been down for months now, as well, so that doesn't inspire any confidence!
I believe the Ubuntu install image is ~500Mb, whereas Angstrom starts out at only ~140Mb, but I'm not worried about space. I'd rather have more and clearer documentation, so I'm considering switching to Ubuntu.
Angstrom vs Ubuntu?
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- jwcooper
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Re: Angstrom vs Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is fairly well supported now, just not the official distribution like Angstrom is. I think it works fine on the BBB, but you might run into more edge cases that don't work as well or need additional configuration when working in GPIO/PWM/SPI, etc (not even sure this is the case anymore).
- scotteh
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Re: Angstrom vs Ubuntu?
I've been running Debian Wheezy for a few weeks with fairly good success. I did have problems trying to get bonescript to run but so far I have'nt had any issues using the Adafruit_BBIO python library for reading and writing to analog GPIOs. I'll be trying I2C once I get my Adafruit 8x8 matrix.
http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/b ... ck/#wheezy
Good luck
Scott
http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/b ... ck/#wheezy
Good luck
Scott
- i dream of jne
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Re: Angstrom vs Ubuntu?
Thanks for the information.
Are people able to access a larger SD card memory space (>4Gb) with Ubuntu? I think Angstrom still maxes out at 4Gb of usable memory, even if you use a 16Gb SD card. Maybe this has been fixed in the past few months.
Are people able to access a larger SD card memory space (>4Gb) with Ubuntu? I think Angstrom still maxes out at 4Gb of usable memory, even if you use a 16Gb SD card. Maybe this has been fixed in the past few months.
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