There is a lot of excitement about TI's Next-Gen BeagleBone. If you have a specific question about its performance characteristics, tech specs, or anything else, post it as a reply to this thread. We are working closely with TI and will make sure to respond to your questions. Thanks everyone! Sagar
you'll probably want to go to http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software and get the latest software image (2013.05.3 as of now) before trying to do anything with opkg
Something must have been wrong with the build. Looks like they pulled it. I can see it in the change history so you're not a liar 
selsinork wrote:
As a suggestion let's have a BeagleBone Black only group.
I think that would be best. Only the Black will sell in very high volumes from the current Beagle lineup, only the Black is seen as a direct Pi competitor for many applications, and only the Black will result in large numbers of beginner-level questions which we will need to handle helpfully as a community. A Black-specific group will support that well.
The fact that even E14 staff posts have been scattered all over the map owing to lack of Black focus is funny, but true. 
selsinork wrote:
As a suggestion let's have a BeagleBone Black only group. One of the problems I see in the wider community is the lack of distinction between the different beagle boards. So much so that while navigating their wiki looking for info on the eMMC that's only on the Black you're getting directed to stuff for the BeagleBoard xM and it's often more difficult than it needs to be to determine if what you're reading applies to the Black or not.
My preference is to have a BeagleBone group and not discriminate on the basis of soldermask color. This is somewhat selfish on my part, since I already have a BBone White and I'm not planning to pick up a BBone Black any time soon.
I think the differences between Black and White aren't that great -- it's almost the same processor, and I would hope that the expansion connectors are compatible so you can use the same capes. So most topics about BBone Black would also apply to White, except for HDMI of course. Yes, BBone White has built-in USB serial and JTAG but I suspect most users of those aren't going to need as much help.
I do heartily agree with keeping BeagleBones separate from BeagleBoards. And I don't mind it being called the "BeagleBone Black" group as long as it's clear that Whites are welcome too -- as well as a future BeagleBone Brown some day 
I suppose that's mostly ok. I'd just prefer we learn from the mistakes that are obvious on some of the wikis where there's no distinguishing lines and clicking on a link supposedly for upgrading the eMMC takes you to instructions for microSD on a board that doesn't have eMMC.
On the subject of capes, most of the stuff I've read, seen as clips on youtube etc tends to gloss over the white/black differences. I've been going through the pinouts of the expansion headers and marking off the ones you can't use due to hdmi/emmc. Without doing the math, it looks like you lose ~70% of P8. And as it also appears that there's no simple way to disable either - you need to send a software command to the eMMC to enable reset before you can disable it and you seemingly need to send something over I2C to the hdmi framer.
So capes could be an interesting experience 
As a serious cape related question.. How many capes actually cost less than the Black ? A quick scan through uk.farnell.com suggests not many, so I wonder how the Black will affect the cape ecosystem.
I don't plan on ever using capes myself, but I also realise I'm probably not quite the average target audience for them either 
I possibly would have used one of the DVI capes with the original bone, but adding the cost of those together puts it close enough to a sabre-lite - which probably explains why I never did get the original.
John Beetem wrote:
as well as a future BeagleBone Brown some day
only as long as it leaves the blue leds at the door 
