What you need for this book

Following are the requisites for efficient learning.

Software prerequisite

Regarding the software you should have a little knowledge of a non graphical text editor as vi, emacs or nano. Even if you can connect an LCD display, a keyboard and a mouse directly to embedded kits and then use the graphical interface, in this book we assume that you is able to do little modifications to text files by using a text only editor.

The host computer, that is the computer you will use to cross-compile the code and/or to manage your embedded systems, is assumed running a GNU/Linux based distribution. My host PC is running an Ubuntu 15.10 but you can use also a newer Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) or a Debian based system too with little ...

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