The goal is to upgrade the Linux on Altera's DE0-Nano-SOC FPGA development board. To challenge us even further, the board confusingly also branded as the Atlas SoC board. The boards provided Linux version is from 2013, woefully outdated, and a stripped-down version. It comes with busybox instead of full commands, lacks all local development tools, and is requiring off-system cross-compiling.
root@socfpga:~# cat /etc/version
201309272205
root@socfpga:~# cat /etc/issue
Poky 8.0 (Yocto Project 1.3 Reference Distro) 1.3
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