Practical Tinker Board: Getting Started and Building Projects with the ASUS Single-Board Computer

© Liz Clark 2019

Liz ClarkPractical Tinker Boardhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3826-4_4

4. Getting to Know TinkerOS

Liz Clark¹ 

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Boston, MA, USA

 

In this chapter we’ll take a tour of TinkerOS, the Debian Linux distribution from ASUS for the Tinker Board.

Note

In the upcoming chapters it will be assumed that you are familiar with the concepts of commands and practices with the Linux terminal, such as sudo, apt-get, cmake, cd, and so on.

Finally, after a lot of preparation, you have everything you need to start using the Tinker Board with an operating system installed. The first OS we’re going to tour is TinkerOS. Based on Debian Linux, it’s maintained by ASUS and has a traditional desktop environment.

First Boot

If you have followed the disk imaging ...