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BBB ships more than 100K units -- and soon with Debian!

johnbeetem

I just saw this at Linux Gizmos: http://linuxgizmos.com/beaglebone-black-sbc-surpasses-100000-units/

Sales of the open source BeagleBone Black SBC, which began shipping in May, have surpassed 100,000 units according to BeagleBoard.org...

 

According to Jason Kridner, sales picked up considerably during the 2013 year-end holiday season. The word has been spreading recently “with lots of great how-tos including at least six BeagleBone books either out or just about to be out and available for pre-order”.

And saving the best for last:

According to Kridner, BeagleBoard.org will have a number of announcements regarding the BeagleBone Black in the new few months. These are said to include “a significant software update, moving our in-the-box distribution to Debian, and an updated version of the Cloud9 IDE.” There will also be “more in-the-box tutorials using JavaScript, and simplified programming of the PRU microcontrollers”

Woo-hoo!

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  • in reply to Former Member

    That depends. It seems like they're trying to support as much as they can, but I don't believe everything will be supported with the first versions.

    For something like the BB-VIEW that's not produced by the developers of the software, there's a couple of choices

    1. is BB-View compatible with something other, supported, display? if so it might work

    2. Will someone sponsor the developers, perhaps send them some hardware, to allow them to build that support.

     

    It may also be that e14 will build their own support for BB-View on Debian, but that would naturally have to wait until there's a reasonably stable Debian version available for them to work from.

  • in reply to Former Member

    I wonder if the BB-view will look just like the CircuitCo display cape, and may just work if the CircuitCo cape gets supported.