On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Brian Hutchinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Seriously .... you already have it! Nothing else has the support of the > community etc. Maybe the Raspberry Pi, but it is the new kid on the block > and some documentation is proprietary so what you have is as open as it > gets. You have to start eating the elephant a bit at a time. After you > have dug a bit ... ask questions. Look around the elinux site, get on IRC > etc. You aren't going to find some book that contains all you seek. If > that is what you are looking for then you need to be messing with Microsoft > style OS. > > You have to dig and figure things out and ask questions. I've been > doing Linux since the start and still feel like a babe in some areas (some > would say all areas). > > You are right, you are in a big pool. Swim! There are tons of folks in > the water with you! > > Regards, > > Brian > Sorry if I sounded short/harsh ... I was thumb typing on my phone at a restaurant and my battery was dying. Anyway, all the Beagles have fantastic hardware and software support. I mean, that guy Gerald that responded with the links ... that's the hardware inventor of the BeagleBoard/BeagleBone! How many people like that go around answering questions??? The BeagleBoard/Bone is the perfect board to dissect and figure things out. I would of given anything to have something like it back when I first started doing embedded Linux. I have several colleagues that get put on Embedded Linux projects that never had a *nix background and they bash embedded Linux and say how much it sucks because they expect to pick up a book with everything they need to know. From experience it doesn't work that way ... by the time a book is published, things have changed. They never learned the concept of "Use the Source Luke" (probably because it was proprietary!) If you are totally new to embedded Linux, something like Karim's "Building Embedded Linux Systems" book may be helpful but most books I find only scratch the surface, you still have to dig and google the topics discussed further. Sites like http://www.elinux.org/BeagleBoard or http://elinux.org/BeagleBoneare good launch pads. Start there then use the various forums & IRC and you'll be on your way. Oh, you'll have to roll your sleeves up but if you want it you'll get there ... so I've meant this all as encouragement. As my dad always told me growing up ... Rome wasn't built in a day ... it's going to take a while to get your head around some things. Regards, Brian -- 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/groups/opt_out.
