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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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  • selsinork wrote:

     

    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.

     

    You're being over-generous.  Angstrom was always  a one man no-show, because that one person (alleged maintainer) never actually did any maintenance AFAICS.  The same bugs that affected the first BeagleBone were still present when BeagleBone Black came out.  In fact he made a point of non-maintenance on principle -- the front page of the website more or less declared that all problems are for yourself to resolve.  Proactive porting of packages also seems to have been avoided, so instead of focusing on useful work, under Angstrom one is constantly yak shaving instead.

     

    If he's now left CircuitCo, it won't make the slightest bit of difference to Angstrom since it wasn't maintained anyway.

     

    Maybe the change will act as a catalyst though for Jason Kridner to pick another distro for BeagleBoard --- hopefully a distro that already has a team of maintainers and a bug tracker.

     

    Morgaine.

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    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

    under Angstrom one is constantly yak shaving instead.

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    Yes I was being generous, trying to let people make up their own minds while hoping for a positive outcome.

     

    Angstrom is really just some sort of layer on top of Yocto/OpenEmbedded. Unfortunately angstrom is the thing that, due to the various beagleboards, most people are likely to have been exposed to. IMHO angstrom has been a bad example of what a Yocto/OE system is all about. It doesn't really matter if vanilla Yocto is better or not, angstrom has left a bad taste...

     

    I do hope that Jason picks something better, but so far he seems to be keeping quiet.

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  • in reply to morgaine

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

    under Angstrom one is constantly yak shaving instead.

    image

    Yes I was being generous, trying to let people make up their own minds while hoping for a positive outcome.

     

    Angstrom is really just some sort of layer on top of Yocto/OpenEmbedded. Unfortunately angstrom is the thing that, due to the various beagleboards, most people are likely to have been exposed to. IMHO angstrom has been a bad example of what a Yocto/OE system is all about. It doesn't really matter if vanilla Yocto is better or not, angstrom has left a bad taste...

     

    I do hope that Jason picks something better, but so far he seems to be keeping quiet.

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