[ja27]

> Edison runs an ancient kernel, the yocto image source is full of hacks, which do not suggest big interest in prolonging the device's actuality.

This killed it for me. I have one through Hackster.io and the first two projects I attempted bogged down in "need to compile this common package from source and hack it up to try to get it working" land. Meanwhile on a Raspberry Pi the same packages are an apt-get away.

I've been asked many times why someone would choose an Edison and the best answer I have is "if you really, really need to use an Intel board" and even then there are better solutions from them.