Re: Beaglebone black good news and not so good news.
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:00 AM, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
> Recently circuitco released a new version of the beaglebone black.
>
> The good news is they have increased the EMMC size to 4GB and are shipping
> debian (presumablly armhf) as standard. YAY
Debian Wheezy (armhf) with the beagle community v3.8.x kernel branch.
If you replace wheezy with jessie in /etc/apt/source.list the jessie
v3.14.x release should boot with usb/hdmi video. Just have to place
the zImage/initrd.img/dtbs under /boot/uboot/
>
> The not so good news is they have increased the price from $45 to $55.
>
As bad as a price increase is, that's actually good news, CircuitCo
was actually losing money on every 2GB version, and with the price
increase both embest/adaifruit are now also making certified clones.
Regards,
--
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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