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Interesting discussion over on the beagleboard google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard/kz3M-It3U5Y

 

Reading between the lines, you get the impression that angstrom was a one man show and that the CircuitCo employee who was that one man has now left for another company.

Exactly what that means for any boards currently using angstrom is as yet unclear.

 

However, if true that angstrom was effectively one person it may explain a lot of the issues people here have seen with it.  Unfortunately the risk is that if angstrom ends up effectively unmaintained, any boards using it as the default pre-installed distro could well get stuck in a dead-end.

 

The beagleboard folks have so far steadfastly stuck with angstrom in spite of the obvious problems, I think it'll be interesting to see what happens next.

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  • Hi Selsinork,

     

    Thanks for the interesting information. The official BeagleBone page has not had an updated image for a while, I really hope they consider a different distribution because it makes people feel uneasy if other distributions are classified as 'unsupported' even though they work.

  • in reply to shabaz

    There's been a couple of off-hand comments over there about angstrom being dead or in the process of being replaced, but I could never find out where those people were getting their rumours from.

    Someone asked Gerald Coley directly here https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/xtcTH1j02SE/discussion but was just deflected and told to ask Jason who seems to be conspicously absent or at least not replying to things like that.

     

    It would seem that switching to Debian and having beagleboard.org supply a repo that only contained kernel + bonescript + things to make usb tethering work would be a clear improvement and would largely relieve the support burden as well as instantly fixing a lot of the issues. We'll have to wait and see though.

     

    Most people I know quickly replace angstrom anyway,  so I'm still left wondering why they don't go with a better default pre-installed.

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  • in reply to shabaz

    There's been a couple of off-hand comments over there about angstrom being dead or in the process of being replaced, but I could never find out where those people were getting their rumours from.

    Someone asked Gerald Coley directly here https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/xtcTH1j02SE/discussion but was just deflected and told to ask Jason who seems to be conspicously absent or at least not replying to things like that.

     

    It would seem that switching to Debian and having beagleboard.org supply a repo that only contained kernel + bonescript + things to make usb tethering work would be a clear improvement and would largely relieve the support burden as well as instantly fixing a lot of the issues. We'll have to wait and see though.

     

    Most people I know quickly replace angstrom anyway,  so I'm still left wondering why they don't go with a better default pre-installed.

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