Beagleboard + Ubuntu 10.10…Sweet!

Things are just falling into place with this Beagleboard.  The Ubuntu distro, although slow on installing packages is pretty damn robust.  I have installed a bunch of packages without a hiccup.  X11VNC works without any issues, and can access with ultraVNC without much screen lag.  My UVC webcam (which can be seen in motion in …
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New Tangent – Vortex86SX is History!

OK.  Why spend so much time on a frankly, underpowered system board.  Chalk it up to learning experience I guess.  That Vortex86 may have been the cat’s pajamas (pulled that from nowhere) about 5-10 years ago with 300Mhz, but the lack of FPU or math coprocessor cripples it nowadays.  Less operating systems will use it, …
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Back to Linux

It has been awhile sinced I posted on this.  My wife and I have been travelling and other projects have been sandwiched in between (like a whole diversion into circuit building and green energy, etc.).  Anyway, I am back to hacking processor boards for robot integration. I am blogging about this because it may help …
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