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Which OS do you use the most?

Please enter which OS you use the most.

Also what type of file sharing do you use NFS or CFIS?

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  • E14 is refreshingly free of the usual petty squabbles like "my choice of OS is better then your choice of OS". It would be nice if it stayed that way.

     

    Also, if you feel you have to take a side and limit yourself to only one then you have done yourself no favours.

  • in reply to Fred27

    I am not saying my OS  is better than yours.

    also I don't know how to make the poll let you pick more than one answer.

    BTW I have just changed the title.

    Personly I run a LINUX/UNX shop and don't do much with Windows. PROBLEM:

    you get a road test or whatever with only Windows .exe files how in the world do you open them?

    BTW I have added a choice of Mixed OS as well

  • in reply to phoenixcomm

    Christina, I want suggesting that your poll was "which is better" but it's a question that seems to always descend into unpleasantness regardless of how nicely it starts. Maybe the E14 community will prove to rise above it though!

     

    With regard to road tests, some may require Windows, some may require Linux. Some may require other tools or skills that not everyone has. I think that's just how it goes. A devices manufacturer is the customer. They're paying for the road tests by providing the equipment for free. It's up to them to decide their target market. I don't see that they have an obligation to be "fair" to everyone.

     

    Personally, the PetaLinux side of the Xilinx tooling is driving me nuts right now. It can't be installed on Windows. Installing and running it - even on a completely clean Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine as supported - is proving to be an exercise in frustration! No reason for me to expect they should have a Windows version though. I have to work with what they provide and support.

  • in reply to Fred27

    David, Doesn't Petalinux a complete distro?

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  • in reply to phoenixcomm

    The tools to build PetaLinux for a particular Xilinx board need to run on a Linux desktop. Bizarrely, I had some trouble running it under WSL on Windows 10 (unsupported) so decided to get it running as officially supported on Ubuntu LTS first. That has been even flakier!

     

    Sorry - I seem to be dragging your poll off topic.

  • in reply to Fred27

    David, NP. but I am whipped as I'm here in Texas and have run up to a wall with the BBAI as the "Survival Guide" installing the new io tree comes back with:

    "make: *** No rule to make target 'BeagleBoard-DeviceTrees/src/arm/arm5729-beagleboneai-custom-.dtb'.  Stop." this bad news. Not everything in this world is easy.  I have used Ti's Pin-Mux tool on other devices. but this is a nightmare.  well anyway back to my bed for another 3 or 4 hours.

  • in reply to phoenixcomm

    You may have found a bug in my Survival Guide script.  It sounds like "make" isn't seeing a file it expects.

     

    I added a "cd" that I believe will address it.  Let me know if that still gives you trouble.

     

    1. cd #(or wherever you want to clone the next line to) 
    2. git clone https://github.com/beagleboard/BeagleBoard-DeviceTrees -b v4.14.x-ti 
    3. nano BeagleBoard-DeviceTrees/src/arm/am5729-beagleboneai-custom.dts #(paste the dts file below) 
    4. cd BeagleBoard-DeviceTrees
    5. make src/arm/am5729-beagleboneai-custom.dtb 
    6. sudo cp src/arm/am5729-beagleboneai-custom.dtb /boot/dtbs 
    7. sudo nano /boot/uEnv.txt #(configure: dtb=am5729-beagleboneai-custom.dtb) 
    8. sudo reboot 
  • in reply to Sean_Miller

    Sean I download the show-pins it works like a champ. I going to try and not screw with pinmux.

    btw have you any idea how to launch plain jane X and get out of the crappy cloud 9 ide which is kind of worthless. it looks like it was put together by a windows person who has little or no idea of what Linux really is.  X is very large I tried it one time and blew my 10 Gb drive. oh well.

  • in reply to phoenixcomm

    No, I haven't done anything to launch into X with the BBAI.  To date, I've been running headless just using Cloud9.  I never saw it before last month, but it did grow on me quickly.  I like my Windows shortcuts which the Linux nano editor does not - so being able to nerd out with what looks like a terminal screen while having my shortcuts, its a good experience for me.

     

    I'm pretty sure the BBAI will boot up to some form of a GUI if you have the hdmi cable plugged in.  I believe I saw it on an intro video on the beagleboard section of this site.

     

    See ya',

    Sean