Beaglebone Black as a temperature monitor: Recently I wanted to monitor the temperature of my shed. I thought I'd use a small computer such as a Raspberry Pi or a Beaglebone or Odroid. My Raspberry Pi boxes were all in use, so I grabbed my Beaglebone, which was doing nothing. I flashed it with the Debian 9.3 2018-03-05 4GB SD IoT image, but that seemed like it was running lots of bloatware and the ethernet interface wouldn't take a static IP with /etc/network/interfaces. So I went with the Debian 9.3 2018-01-28 4GB SD LXQT i image instead. I still had the same problem, that lots of junk was running, and I couldn't configure my interface by modifying /etc/network/interfaces So my first step was to get rid of all the bloatware. If you're using a Raspberry Pi or something, you can skip this and just go to the second step below STEP 1--Remove Blotatware from Beaglebone Black: With some searching, I came across this post: https://www.