Hi @dzhou, it helps to have a large collection of SATA/SSD drives, and just a swap caddie in your development machine.
I just got Ubuntu 16.04 working, the only thing you need to do is install a 3rd party version of nodejs and remove ubuntu’s default version as it’s too old.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libudev-dev libpcap0.8-dev curl git
sudo apt-get purge nodejs npm
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs
voodoo@zeus:~$ nodejs --version
v8.17.0
git clone https://github.com/ravikp7/node-beagle-boot.git
cd ./node-beagle-boot/
npm install
sudo npm start
Regards,