Mixtile OS
Mixtile OS is the official operating system for Blade 3: Ubuntu or Debian, set up for the board, with the GPU, the video codecs and the NPU working out of the box.
Editions
| Distribution | Editions |
|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Server, Desktop (GNOME) |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Server, Desktop (GNOME) |
| Debian 13 | Server, Desktop (GNOME) |
| Debian 12 | Server, Desktop (GNOME) |
The desktop edition starts GNOME on the HDMI monitor. The server edition has no graphical session and is used over SSH or the serial console. For help choosing, see Downloads.
Login details
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| User | mixtile |
| Password | mixtile |
| Hostname | mixtile-blade3 |
| Serial console | 1500000 baud |
You can log in on the HDMI monitor, the serial console or over SSH. On the desktop edition, mixtile is logged in to GNOME automatically. Change the password with passwd after the first login.
What works out of the box
- 3D graphics on the Mali GPU, with OpenGL and Vulkan, in the desktop edition
- Hardware video decoding and encoding, used by the included FFmpeg and GStreamer
- Hardware 2D acceleration
- NPU inference, for the examples under Application Development
Building it yourself
The image sources are public. See Building a Mixtile OS Image.