meaning of BeagleBone build names from RCN

[Stephane Charette]

Can someone help explain the name of various builds available on RCN's site?  I have a hard time guessing the meaning or difference between builds.  What I was looking for is a Ubuntu 16.04 build that I can install on my Seeed Studio BBGW, and which includes everything necessary to use WIFI on the device.

For example take this build:

• https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2016-06-09/flasher/BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04-console-armhf-2016-06-09-2gb.img.xz

What I was hoping to find is something similar to this:

• https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2016-xx-yy/flasher/BBGW-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04-console-armhf-2016-xx-yy-2gb.img.xz

But I did not find any Ubuntu builds that also had the letters "bbgw" in the title.  I did find several Debian builds with BBGW in the name, but I don't know the difference between them.  For example:

• https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-05/seeed-gcp-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-gcp-iot-armhf-2016-08-05-4gb.img.xz  ("gcp"?)
• https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-07/seeed-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img.xz  ("blank"?)
  
• https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-07/iot/BBBW-blank-debian-8.5-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img.xz  (What is the difference between seeed-iot and iot?)
  

While on the topic of build names from RCN, can someone explain the meaning of these words/builds:

• bb.org (?)
  
• eewiki (?)
• barefs (bare file system?)
• minifs  (mini file system?)
• blank (?)
• console  (?)
• iot  (internet of things?)
• lxqt-2gb (?)
• lxqt-4gb (?)
• seeed-gcp (Seeed Studio?)
• seeed-iot  (Seeed Studio?)
• seeed-lxqt-4gb (Seeed Studio?)
• usbflasher (?)

TIA,

Stéphane

[Robert Nelson]

Hi Stephane,

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Stephane Charette
<stephane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone help explain the name of various builds available on RCN's site?
> I have a hard time guessing the meaning or difference between builds. What
> I was looking for is a Ubuntu 16.04 build that I can install on my Seeed
> Studio BBGW, and which includes everything necessary to use WIFI on the
> device.
>
> For example take this build:
>
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2016-06-09/flasher/BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04-console-armhf-2016-06-09-2gb.img.xz
>
>
> What I was hoping to find is something similar to this:
>
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2016-xx-yy/flasher/BBGW-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04-console-armhf-2016-xx-yy-2gb.img.xz

The BBB "ubuntu" image will support the BBGW wifi "eventually"...
There's one ti tool i still need to package into Debian Jessie (my
main rootfs target), then rebuild/port those wl18xx tools to 16.04..

(am i going to get that done this or next week, un-likely..)

> But I did not find any Ubuntu builds that also had the letters "bbgw" in the
> title. I did find several Debian builds with BBGW in the name, but I don't
> know the difference between them. For example:
>
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-05/seeed-gcp-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-gcp-iot-armhf-2016-08-05-4gb.img.xz
> ("gcp"?)
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-07/seeed-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img.xz
> ("blank"?)
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-07/iot/BBBW-blank-debian-8.5-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img.xz
> (What is the difference between seeed-iot and iot?)
>
>
> While on the topic of build names from RCN, can someone explain the meaning
> of these words/builds:
>
> bb.org (?)

http://beagleboard.org

> eewiki (?)

http://eewiki.net -> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/Home

> barefs (bare file system?)
> minifs (mini file system?)
> blank (?)

Flasher can modify the board eeprom...

> console (?)

no x11...

> iot (internet of things?)

> lxqt-2gb (?)

lxqt desktop in 2GB eMMC

> lxqt-4gb (?)

lxqt desktop in 4GB eMMC

> seeed-gcp (Seeed Studio?)
> seeed-iot (Seeed Studio?)
> seeed-lxqt-4gb (Seeed Studio?)

> usbflasher (?)

oem stuff

Regards,

--
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

[Stephane Charette]

Thanks for the reply, Robert.  Knowing that I have a BBGW where I want to enable WIFI, which build would you recommend from the following:

> I did find several Debian builds with BBGW in the name, but I don't
> know the difference between them.  For example:
>
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-05/seeed-gcp-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-gcp-iot-armhf-2016-08-05-4gb.img.xz  ("gcp"?)
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-07/seeed-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img.xz  ("blank"?)
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-07/iot/BBBW-blank-debian-8.5-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img.xz  (What is the difference between seeed-iot and iot?)

(I just noticed that last one is BBBW, not BBGW...?)

Once I understand the difference between these builds, I'll update the BBGW installation instructions that I posted a while back.

Stéphane

[Robert Nelson]

> (I just noticed that last one is BBBW, not BBGW...?)

Different board, undergoing testing..

> Once I understand the difference between these builds, I'll update the BBGW
> installation instructions that I posted a while back.

ps, the "iot" images are good fit for the BBGW, there was a couple
packages that Seeed wanted by default. That's why there are
"seeed-xyz" variants..

[Nuno Gonçalves]

On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 7:34:30 PM UTC+1, RobertCNelson wrote:

> barefs (bare file system?)
> minifs  (mini file system?)
> blank (?)

Flasher can modify the board eeprom...

Hi Robert,

Could you please explain in more one line why can it modify the board eeprom?

Thanks