Is angstrom project still alive ?

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Hello,

The web server http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ has been down for a while, so I was wondering if the angstrom project is still active or If I should switch to another distrib ?

Thanks
Alex.

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Im just starting out with ARM and BBB… but about 30 minutes into angstrom, with the website being down, lack of support, lack of community, lack of documentation… I switched.

I dont know which distro is the best for what you are doing but… i think there are better options to angstrom. thats IMHO…

I have a few micro sd cards 8gigs or more and I have been flashing them to run headless distros of debian and ubuntu. at that level they are almost he same thing so. I like Debian because its what we used in school. I like ubuntu because of the support and documentation.

I also thought I read a thread on here about a month ago that had to do with BB switching from shipping bbb with Angstrom… donno tho as Im still new.

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Just so you know. Much of the Debian and Ubuntu documentation will work for both. Debian also has a ton of information / documentation out there. All you have to do is google.

I like Debian because I have been using it for years and it is very solid. Debian on the BBB has also been very solid in my experience. However, this is not a desktop x86 OS so do not expect every single thing to work perfectly, or even to be included in the package manager(s).

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That's what I felt about Angstrom.

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Ron Morgan wrote:

Im just starting out with ARM and BBB… but about 30 minutes into angstrom, with the website being down, lack of support, lack of community, lack of documentation… I switched.

My BBB is a A5C revision, so I updated the angstrom distribution with the lastest available one (which is not very recent) and once it booted up I updaed the packages (opkg update;opkg upgrade). The repository server is still alive.
But the angstrom project lacks of activities, support and community.

I have a few micro sd cards 8gigs or more and I have been flashing them to run headless distros of debian and ubuntu. at that level they are almost he same thing so. I like Debian because its what we used in school. I like ubuntu because of the support and documentation.

For my personal and professional needs, i’ve developping embedded linux apps with debian and fedora-based distributions, so ubuntu will be easier to use.
The latest ubuntu image for arm processors was made on Feb 16th, the community is active. I will give a try to ubuntu.

Thanks for your reply