Chapter 1. Installing the Developing System

In this chapter, we will present three of the most used development kits for industrial applications. Respect to the most famous Raspberry Pi, these boards are based on widely used CPUs on custom boards in an industrial environment. In fact, while Raspberry Pi's CPU is not easily available on the components market, the CPUs of the following boards are widely available with different professional board makers.

In the upcoming sections, after a brief introduction of each board, we'll see how we can set them up to run a complete GNU/Linux distribution and then get access to the system console. After that, we will install a complete developing system on each board in order to be able to add our own programs. ...

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