a cool OS coming to the beagleboard?

The easiest answer to putting Linux on a Beagle Board today is
Angstrom (http://beagleboard.org/project/angstrom) via Koen's pre-
built images (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jadon/2535894759/). He has
some newer images he mentioned on the IRC channel today: http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2008-07-30#T11
:36:13.

Other options are certainly possible as some people have Mamona,
Ubuntu, and Debian running (Google is your friend). Pointers to some
ARM distros are at BeagleBoard: Distros for Beagle
.

http://eLinux.org/BeagleBoard is a nice place to get started with your
Beagle, after you have gotten comfortable with running the test kernel
on http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard.

Just thinking of what would be needed to to play a video full screen. you are going to need keyboad suport of some kind build in to exit out of the mode.

we could have a small fast kernel for such things a full screen video and encoding. anything that is pcu/dsp/gpu intenceive that dus not require an desktop appication like os.

call it fast mode
then when you exit out of fast mode you can go in to desktop mode or command line mode

modes

  • Fast mode - small fast kernal only
  • desktop mode - modules are loaded to support advanced features
  • command prompt mode – required modules are loaded to support this feature

I am learning so your welcome to have a laugh if you like. :slight_smile: