Debian images

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Hello Beaglers,

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian

The Debian images at the second link seem to be different from the “official” ones. Does anybody know what the main differences are?
thanks,

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They serve two markets, the "first" is a custom version of the
"second" for CircuitCo to ship as the new default image. It's
requirements were to replace the out of box experience of the older
Angstrom Image.

The "second" is designed to be very minimal and allow other developers
to base their custom stacks on. It also supports other products such
as the original beagle/xm/panda and a few imx devices.

Regards,

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Thanks for the info, Robert, and thanks for making these images, installation scripts, and so on. BTW is this a solo effort, or are other people involved in Beagle Debian?

The major extras in the “official” image seem to include lxde, wicd, compilation utilities, audio utilities, and probably a lot of other stuff I didn’t recognise. Apart from the extra packages, are there any particular differences in kernel, configuration, etc?

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Thanks for the info, Robert, and thanks for making these images, installation scripts, and so on. BTW is this a solo effort, or are other people involved in Beagle Debian?

The major extras in the “official” image seem to include lxde, wicd, compilation utilities, audio utilities, and probably a lot of other stuff I didn’t recognise. Apart from the extra packages, are there any particular differences in kernel, configuration, etc?

No! That would mean more work, and I’m pretty lazy!

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In all seriousness, is there a donation link you could post so we could send you some thanks?

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As long as users keep buying from Digi-Key, they'll keep me on the payroll. :wink:

Regards,