I'm in the same position. I bought this evaluation kit to evaluate if the hardware will work for our project. I don't want to spend days or weeks doing a full Linux bring up just to install some standard packages like git, mongodb, nodejs, etc.
You guys know this board, so you must be able to provide apt-get or yum or similar in a Linux image or give some instructions on how to build one of them from source.
Alternatively, are there no full Linux distribution images that will run on this board?
Thanks.