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On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:53:49 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for clarifying. I guess I found the whole write-up at LinuxGizmos > rather confusing. Part of the problem on my behalf is that I guess I've > viewed Circuitco, and beagleboard.org as kind of the same entity. The > other part of my confusion is that the write-up seems to be all over the > place. > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Bill Traynor <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:19 AM, William Hermans <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> > From what I could gather from the article, these are embest ./ element14 >> > boards. Kind of hard to read through as one part of the article seems >> like >> > it's implying one thing, where in another it seems to go another >> direction. >> > >> > >> >> The board is produced by CircuitCo. It's a great little board with >> just the right stuff removed to make it more palatable for some. I >> like it a lot. >> >> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, John Syn <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> From: William Hermans <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> >> Reply-To: "[email protected] <javascript:>" < >> [email protected] <javascript:>> >> >> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 9:17 PM >> >> To: "[email protected] <javascript:>" < >> [email protected] <javascript:>> >> >> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBoard SBC Goes OEM, COM Version Coming >> >> >> >> Funny how these articles always seem to report stuff that's either >> >> incorrect or not entirely accurate. >> >> >> >> I think the overlying information given by the site is nice to know ( >> such >> >> as new hardware being released ), but their actual write-ups are >> nothing >> >> more than FUD. The article you linked to had several points of >> >> misinformation, such as the BBB's processor speed ( but somehow they >> managed >> >> to get it right in the table of board differences ). >> >> >> >> Anyway, the board sound interesting, but personally I think they went >> the >> >> wrong direction in removing the eMMC. and am pretty sure it can be >> disabled >> >> via device tree overlays if additional IO's are needed ( which really >> wont >> >> give you many back anyway.).HDMI on the other hand, I'd never miss. >> >> >> >> Looks like the same board as the BBB with the eMMC and HDMI chips not >> >> populated. I’m sure Gerald & circuitco have analyzed the market >> requirement >> >> and this is what the market wants. If you have the numbers, I’m sure >> they >> >> will manufacture a batch with the eMMC populated or you could always >> add it >> >> yourself. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Don't even get me started with "Angstrom is prefered by most / more >> >> professional developers . . ." Because that is plain B.S. Also the >> >> statement "Moving to the more user friendly Debian >> >> . . ." Is fairly hilarious. Mainly because many long time users of >> other >> >> distro's seem to have a hard time grasping the concepts of a more >> >> traditional Linux distro like Debian. For the record though this >> statement >> >> is accurate as Debian actually has real / proper documentation. Where >> >> Angstrom falls flat on its face >> >> >> >> I could go on, and on, but the fact is that "real professionals" are >> going >> >> to use what makes the most sense for their project. If they want small, >> >> Angstrom is probably the last thing in their minds. QNX, or Busybox on >> a >> >> microkernel come to mind far ahead of anything else. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:44 PM, John Syn <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/777154-beaglebone-sbc-goes-oem-com-version-coming >> >>> >> >>> Interesting how we are the last to know about this! >> >>> >> >>> Regards, >> >>> >> >>> John >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> >>> --- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >>> "BeagleBoard" group. >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an >> >>> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> >> --- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> >> --- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "BeagleBoard" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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