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It assumes you have bootstrapped your Edison, logged in and are comfortable executing programs at the command prompt. This guide steps you through the process of creating a package that the opkg package manager can install on the Intel Edison. It is great, but pre-built packages (ipk) of many of your favourite open source tools don’t exist yet. The operating system the Edison ships with is ‘Yocto’, a linux distribution targeted at embedded systems. The only downside lies in the software ecosystem it is still pretty small. I think it is the most exciting hardware Intel has developed since my trusty old Pentium 200 MMX. I am completely besotted with the Intel Edison.
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