Hi all,
There’s now a flash-installable version of Debian available for Edison. It’s called ubilinux, and is a follow-on from the previous work done on the ubilinux distribution for Galileo and Galileo Gen2.
ubilinux page here
Functionality available out of the box:
Mutli-function gadget (Storage, Network, Serial)
Wifi
Arduino IDE compatibility with sketch download daemon
C and C++ compiler
Python
Node.JS
wpa-supplicant and HostAPD
If there’s something missing that you need, just use ‘apt-get install’ to get it from the pre-selected Debian repositories.
We’ve chosen the “flashall.sh -b” method to install onto the Edison, as we’ve increased the size of the root partition to a size that’s larger than the max size allowed by the OTA upgrades. This is to give users more space for installing packages. You need a linux platform or a Linux live-boot platform to use the flashall.sh script. See the Installation Instructions here: Installation instructions
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Note: It's probably good if the first thing you do once you get your board connected to the internet is do an "apt-get install ntp" which will automatically set the system clock. Otherwise it's set to a date in the year 2000.
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