In this chapter, I showed you how to install the operating system on your BBBs. You learned about the small differences between configuring the master and slaves nodes. Additionally, I showed you how to write smaller system images to larger memory cards and how to adapt the filesystem size to use the full card size.

Examples of a network configuration were given to provide a basic system setup. This included the configuration of SSH, which is a powerful console tool that executes commands on your BBB from a remote location.

After a step-by-step guide on how to install the basic programming environment, you were given an example of how to write your first application in Linux on your BBB.

The chapter ended by configuring some additional tools such as FTP and Samba, and you were shown how to access and transfer files from and to your cluster.