Beagle Board 3D, Angstrom, and Ubuntu June 2008

Quick run through some Beagle Board demos, including a couple of 3D demos from Imagination Technologies, the Angstrom distribution built with Open Embedded by Koen Kooi, and Ubuntu as built by mojo.handhelds.org. Music courtesy of Nine Inch Nails (20 Ghosts III and 21 Ghosts III).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 3d
• angstrom
• beagleboard
• openembedded
• omap3530
• ubuntu
• omap3

[joachimr61]

How much RAM is on that board? The standard 128 MB (IMHO)? Doubt it.

[jadonk]

When this demo was done, it was 128MB. The current board shipping has 256MB.

[melchisalins]

how easy is it to install ubuntu and boot off it on beagleboard??? do we have to dump the iso on the SD card and just boot off it? or does it take more???

[jadonk]

Just google "beagleboard ubuntu". If you talk to the guys at Special Computing, they might make one of the SD cards for you.

[cloudycolacorp]

If I had the skill, I'd like to make a MAME machine from this, it would be great in a mini-cabinet, or just plugged into the TV or a monitor. I'm not sure that it would be powerful enough though

[jadonk]

Look at the OpenPandora. It has the same CPU and runs MAME quite well. This would make a fine MAME cabinet that would be silent and low-enough power to leave running all the time without running up your bill.

[spiritdawound]

ubuntu is not something efficient for such a comp, ok it's allways good to show it works but they bring got heavy default kernel and modprobe like hell, you got to spend a lot of time cleaning & tweaking.

Angstrom+E17 instead.. yum yum :) Gentoo with a setup box crosscompiler might be even greater.

woot I like this sexy thing

[ericc72]

I don't think you really get what is going on here. But anyway, you will see more and more small computer. Most people do not need a large 100W draining computer with a loud honking fan. This is ARM based, so won't run XP, but will do Linux. Of course the Atom, which is x86, will run XP (maybe not enough juice for Vista).

Anyway, this is cool. Could probably run a nice Debian home server off the thing.

[lonerider92]

I'm not a huge fan of ubuntu I'll use it if I have to but can it run opensuse kde?

[kamilm122]

the music is very annoying...

I'm from poland... where i can buy this cheaper? 139 USD to złote [139 x 4] isn't very cheap :/ :(

[jonmasters]

Nice video. The soundtrack detracts greatly from the content though.

[spinspermy]

This shit has lots of potentials...imagine the unlimited usages of it :D

[linuxrobotdude]

I know this is an odd question, but where do you get the cable from the usb mini connector on the beagle board to the usb cable that you plug into the hub?

[graymalkin1234]

When the current design was made the highest performance OMAP CPU was 600Mhz, they now have a 720 which I wouldn't be surprised to find in the next iPhone / iPod touch iteration, probably beagleboard rev D too! :P

[arthursucks]

@davad2002 It's says it in the description. It's from Nine Inch Nails' free album Ghosts.

[knebauz]

@davad2002 read the info

[MAcDaTHo]

@davad2002 look at the comment of OP.. (the person who posted the video..)

[davad2002]

Hello everybody...im interesting in the music of this video....somebody knows the name of song/artist?

Thanks