Is Angstrom still the "official" distribution for the Beaglebone? It appears that the Angstrom site recently has been reduced to a bare-bones version. Does this indicate lack of support? If so, which distribution is likely to replace it?
Dave.
Dave,
the Angstrom website is in the process of being moved to a new hosting site. it should be back up to full implementation shortly…
Dave
There isn't an *official* distribution, though Angstrom does get some
special treatment with being included in-the-box. That in-the-box
aspect has been the only planned special treatment of Angstrom, though
Koen's time in supporting it and customizing it to host "the
BeagleBone experience" has been greatly appreciated and added a lot to
the Beagle community.
The BeagleBone experience includes:
* having a good locally hosted toolchain supporting C, C++, Python,
Perl, JavaScript and others to come,
* included documentation with drivers,
* a USB client driver with mass-storage to share the documentation and
virtual Ethernet to enable ssh and http connections,
* CapeMgr plus DTBO files for registered capes to configure pins and drivers,
* and the BoneScript library and server (with expectations for C++ and
Python libraries moving forward).
We've been working with Debian folks and Robert Nelson on providing
this experience on Debian, along with updating to a 3.12.x kernel and
making sure there is good documentation on configuring WiFi over USB.
I've also been playing around with flashing via Buildroot as a way to
make an image that could flash multiple distributions.
Before any final decision on making a move to Debian on production
in-the-box images could be made, we'd need to have release candidates
that
provide the above features and extensive community testing. We'd
certainly expect to see continued Angstrom support and want to
reiterate that the
Angstrom site is simply undergoing a move. However, the community does
seem to be pushing the project in the direction of Debian.
Does this probable move to Debian mean that systemd will not be supported?
Dave.
Angstrom site is simply undergoing a move. However, the community does
seem to be pushing the project in the direction of Debian.Does this probable move to Debian mean that systemd will not be supported?
SystemD is supported on Debian. I believe Robert Nelson is looking into
making SystemD as the default for Jessie.
Regards,
John
Many thanks to Jason and John for you excellent information. Just what I was looking for 
As of last week the Debian CTTE has decided on systemd for jessie.
Chris