In this chapter, the BeagleBone was set up to run Debian on a resized SD card. The image was also updated to get the latest upgrades available. Then, the LXDE desktop environment was installed. Finally, the Cloud9 IDE was set up and run. Now, the BeagleBone is ready to build the applications needed to control the devices discussed in the later chapters. In the next chapter, we will talk about the software that will be used to store streamed video, and serve up both audio and video files to any device on the network.