Part of my reasoning is probably personal preference, but the majority of my reasoning has to do with package conflicts. Debian stable(wheezy at the moment ) should always be pretty much straight forward in this regard ( no surprises ).
Where as LMDE is based on Debian testing, a branch which is subject to change, and not guaranteed to be 100% functional. To clarify, this means it will probably boot, and most packages are very likely to work as well, but not guaranteed. However, the bigger problem lies in various tool versions. As I'm sure the Linux Mint team does at least test their builds *some*. So *if* you're trying to build something for your BBB that requires a certain version of x.y.z tool, and your support system uses a different version . . . You're likely going to run into errors, or worse yet; Silent errors leaving you very frustrated for many moons. In short, and in this context - Debian just works. Now, if you're a Linux / troubleshooting guru. This would probably be less of a problem for you. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Brian Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you want my opinion, ditch Linux mint *NOW*. Personally I will not use >> anything other than Debian for a support system to the BBB, and would NEVER >> use X for this purpose. Especially in a VM . . . >> >> Yeah yeah, Linux mint is based on Ubuntu and Debian( testing ) ( >> depending on version ), but thats part of the problem. >> >> > Hmmm, OK! Would you like to enumerate why you wouldn't use Mint? I was > under the impression the Mint-17 is based upon Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and thus > fairly stable. Personally, I can't stand Unity...but YMMV. What distro > would you suggest? > > Well, at the moment, all I have is my MBP laptop to support this effort. > So, either I setup NFS on the MAC and hope for the best, or use a VM > running some Linux. I thought I'd give the VM approach a try as a first > step in order to not introduce native MAC NFS vagaries into the mix. > Probably could try that option now that I have things limping along. > > When you say NEVER use X, I'm assuming you mean running X windows on a dev > env (Linux Mint)? I'm not running X on the BBB (well, I do often use X > forwarding to the MAC/XQuartz for stuff like (gasp) emacs, xterm, ...). My > thought was to do dev on the MAC (straight away or via a VM) using a shared > file system between the MAC and BBB so I didn't have to copy files around, > nor risk loosing everything if the BBB goes toes in the air or the uSD > craps out. > > I'm all ears on suggestions for a good dev setup though! > > Cheers, > > ba > > -- > 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]. > 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
