Choose my OS for the IGEPv2 review!

**Sonicxtacy02** · 11-23-2010, 10:18 AM

Thanks to the people at mp3Car, I've been given the chance to do a product review for the IGEPv2 board. As some of you know, the IGEPv2 is pretty flexible and can run a variety of OS's. Simply put, I've been struggling to choose which one i should do the review with! So I turn to you guys... help me out and answer the poll.

**Bugbyte** · 11-23-2010, 11:51 AM

W00t! Glad to see you with a igep!!! I vote for Ubuntu because it ought to allow you to run Open Mobile on it.

Meego is not far enough along to be interesting beyond novelty.

Also, I hope you know more about Linux than I do. Getting Poky linux off of that thing and putting Ubuntu on it was incredibly, unbelievably difficult for me. Upgrading it from 9.04 to 10 was actually impossible for me. Info on that odyssey is here.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 11-23-2010, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Bugbyte

W00t! Glad to see you with a igep!!! I vote for Ubuntu because it ought to allow you to run Open Mobile on it.

Meego is not far enough along to be interesting beyond novelty.

Also, I hope you know more about Linux than I do. Getting Poky linux off of that thing and putting Ubuntu on it was incredibly, unbelievably difficult for me. Info on that process is here.

My linux knowledge is all from the old original Xbox and hacking it to run Gentoo ages ago.. and yes i'm pretty sure either way i go here its gonna be quite the challenge to get it running. It doesnt help that my host PC doesnt have working network drivers for ubuntu. But i'll manage it and make it through! My sacrifice to you guys! lol

Thanks for the resource too.. i looked on the message board first but didnt find those posts.

**nasa** · 11-23-2010, 12:54 PM

Seems like some efforts to place Ubuntu on the BeagleBoard already exist...

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAPMaverickInstall

**tripzero** · 11-23-2010, 08:48 PM

I vote meego (handset ux). I haven't bothered with the IVI version yet because as Bugbyte said, it's not far enough along to do much with it.

Whatever your choice, I'll be more than happy to offer my services as I've gotten both meego and ubuntu running. I've got a working kernel and I can build you some images of some distros if you need em.

**justchat_1** · 11-23-2010, 10:34 PM

+1 for ubuntu....you know my thoughts on meego.

Originally Posted by tripzero

I vote meego (handset ux). I haven't bothered with the IVI version yet because as Bugbyte said, it's not far enough along to do much with it.

Whatever your choice, I'll be more than happy to offer my services as I've gotten both meego and ubuntu running. I've got a working kernel and I can build you some images of some distros if you need em.

Any chance you'll consider doing a custom distro? something carPC optimized perhaps?

edit:
Ubuntu already offers:
http://labs.igep.es/index.php/How_to...ick_Meerkat.29

**Bugbyte** · 11-23-2010, 10:37 PM

Trip - if you do that, let's put it on the app store or something so everyone can get it.

**DaveDog** · 11-23-2010, 11:42 PM

so why not a review based on multiple OS's? Seems like there is some division out there about how the future looks (except that Windows offers the most functionality) so maybe a review could show the weaknesses of some of the Os's (except of course windows).

**justchat_1** · 11-24-2010, 12:02 AM

No one would be using pure debian on here so it comes down to meego, ubuntu or android. I think everyone knows what android can do, everyone knows meego isn't yet functional and anyone who knows linux has played with ubuntu. The better test would be showing how to install any os (pretty much the same procedure) and demonstrating what the board is capable of. Also, any driver issues or additional packages needed. After that we can see if anyone wants the same for android or meego (when its more feature complete).

**Sonicxtacy02** · 12-07-2010, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by justchat_1

+1 for ubuntu....you know my thoughts on meego.

Any chance you'll consider doing a custom distro? something carPC optimized perhaps?

edit:
Ubuntu already offers:
http://labs.igep.es/index.php/How_to...ick_Meerkat.29

Ok the time on the poll has run its course and i have started the process of installing ubuntu. I actually used this exact guide last night, got down to the last and seemingly easiest step (copy boot.scr to boot.ini) but i cant find a boot.scr anywhere on the system. Not in the rootfs or bootfs partitions, hell not even in the system folders. Each prior step worked flawlessly so what am i doing wrong?

The only other portion of that guide that confuses me is it references a rootfs partition without it actually telling me i needed to set one up on the SD card prior to doing starting the install. I did create 2 partitions on my 8GB SD. Both are EXT4's.

Originally Posted by DaveDog

so why not a review based on multiple OS's? Seems like there is some division out there about how the future looks (except that Windows offers the most functionality) so maybe a review could show the weaknesses of some of the Os's (except of course windows).

Because the review is based on the hardware and would become entirely too long if I tried to compare OS options within it. Maybe in the Blog Talk page that follows i can go into depths but the review will format will be the igep's potential as a car PC or secondary (specific use) support PC.