Debian or Angstrong?

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Hi guys, Im a newbie and I want to use Beagleboard for my graduate
thesis. I want to build a robot which is capable of
1) ball tracking/ face tracking (openCV)
2) Speech synthesis
3) Voice Recognition
Mostly like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okt-2_VxGfc . For some
reasons I can't contact the creator so I need to ask for some
instructions.

First I want to ask which Linux distro should I use on my Beagleboard
xM? Ubuntu, Debian or Angstrong? The creator of that robot used
Debian.

I don't know which one is easier to setup and use: like which one is
easy to install openCV? (I just know how to setup openCV on ubuntu
lately, still learning linux), are there compatibles applications/
packages in each distro that fill my requirements? processing speed of
each distro: which one is faster?

Sorry for any silly questions, and for my English too, I'm not a
native speaker :smiley:

Thanks

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Ubuntu is not working on the newer boards that use the micron memory.
The ubuntu team is working on it, but no timeframe has been given.

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so how about Debian vs Angstrom? which one u use?

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Both have newer Kernels so that is not an issue. What are you going
to use for VR and Synthesis? I would look at those sites and see what
they recommend. I am assuming that you will be developing code in QT
or Python; so either one will do that.