Which distro for BBB

Andrew W.

Hello,

There are several Linux distros for the Beaglebone Black; Arago, Angstrom, Debian and custom variants at github.

I just tried Debian for a few /dev/mmc experiments and found that 'lsblk' works nicely. But Arago does NOT have this utility for listing block device info.

Has anyone produced and compared a manifest of default applications and systems tools/commands for each distro?I would rather choose Debian but am concerned that I will loose the feeatures porovided by TI SDK for Sitara/BBB.

If I choose Arago via TI SDK, how does one 'build' standard Linux utilities like 'lsblk' into the image? Are there Arago recipe variants that will give me a distro complete with standard Linux utilities?

Thank you.

over 11 years ago

0 Biser Gatchev-XID over 11 years ago

TI__Guru**** 393215 points

Hi Andrew,

I will forward this to the SW team. Please note that this forum only supports the TI SDK. All other distros are supported by the community at http://beagleboard.org/Community/Forums

0 Ivan Matrakov over 11 years ago

TI__Expert 4475 points

Hi Andrew,

Yes, the lsblk not available in Arago FS. To use it you can download the util-linux-xx.xx.xx and build it. You can do this from the:
https://gitorious.org/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng/source/cc6b1d11eabf9d86849a80f2ca8b4c0afd45844f:misc-utils/lsblk.c
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux/
git clone https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux
http://fossies.org/linux/misc/util-linux-2.25.2.tar.gz/

BR
Ivan

0 Andrew W. over 11 years ago

Intellectual 260 points

Thank you gentlemen,

I will look at the source package to build the utils. Just one related question - is it general practice for SDK/Arago developers to download and build these extra packages on the target platform? I was hoping there is a way to customize a recipe to do an offline build for subsequent inclusion in a released filesystem image.

-Andrew

0 Ivan Matrakov over 11 years ago in reply to Andrew W.

TI__Expert 4475 points

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately no way to customize a recipe to do an offline build for subsequent inclusion in a released filesystem image.

BR
Ivan

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