BeagleBoard-xM rev.C and Angstrom demo

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Hi,

I just got a brand new BeagleBoard-xM (shipped in September 2011),
provided with a validation Angstrom distribution. Kernel version is
2.6.32 and the microSD is named xMTEST beta 4-25. Mounting the microSD
I can access a FAT partition, plus an EXT3 partition.

My question is: I read in different tutorials (even if most of them
somehow old) that the provided Angstrom version is for demo and
validation purposes only. Moreover, different resources report that
neither GUI nor file system is provided.

Still, at startup I get Gnome running, and I managed to create some
test files and they were successfully stored on the fs and retrieved
after booting the OS.
Thereby, I cannot feel the real limitations of this "demo" version...
do I really need to format my microSD and re-install a "full" Angstrom
version? It seems to me that everything is working even with this
version. Maybe the differences are just related to commercial usage...

Could someone clarify this point please?

Thanks
Gabriele

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They are all wrong and/or outdated as you suspected.

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Hi,

I just got a brand new BeagleBoard-xM (shipped in September 2011),
provided with a validation Angstrom distribution. Kernel version is
2.6.32 and the microSD is named xMTEST beta 4-25. Mounting the microSD
I can access a FAT partition, plus an EXT3 partition.

My question is: I read in different tutorials (even if most of them
somehow old) that the provided Angstrom version is for demo and
validation purposes only. Moreover, different resources report that
neither GUI nor file system is provided.

Dear Gabriele Randelli,

Sorry to say this, but i will strongly suggest you to read/learn more about Linux+embedded systems and start commenting here.There are plenty of updated documentations are available about how to run angstrom on beagleboard.I feel like , you are commenting here without having any basic understanding about Embedded Linux,Beagleboard and Open Embedded.

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Hi,