(ARCHIVED) Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel)

[faddah]

[*]@longsleep or anyone who knows — to flash and copy the Micro SD cards on my Mac OS X iMac, you use the 'dd' command at the terminal. is there anything else, some other utility app for Mac OS X or general *Nix that can be used on Mac OS X that is faster? thus far, it takes a little over an hour each time to flash a 64GB MicroSD that is Class-10 & UHS-3, fastest on the market. it seems to me it should just not take that long. any suggestions would be appreciated.

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You are probably doing it wrong. Follow one of the various methods for Mac OS as described here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...ges/mac.md - one of them might be much faster (especially /dev/rdisk vs /dev/disk). I do not know anything about mac. Easy fix, get rid of it and use Linux

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@longsleep —

ok, thanks for that link — i've got three more MicoSD's coming in the mail and i will try that then.

i'm glad you love linux, it's a great platform, but i don't enter into os-wars/culture-wars. i work with linux, i work with mac os x, i work with windows, all have improvied. i go where the tech and the work is, i care not what flavor it is. all have their plusses and minuses.

any ideas on the repetitive blank screens in Mate i keep getting that freeze the system?

again, thanx for the help.

best,

—  faddah
     portland, oregon, u.s.a.