What embedded linux distro is good for newbie and has build environment ?

Hi,

I'd like to get started in embedded linux. I'm using Suse 9.2 on desktop and would like to work on it, but I guess it's not so popular in embeded world - although quite some of guys use Suse rescue system as barebone base for Asterisk (great open source PBX) embedded instalations - does anyone have any experience or more info on embedding Suse ?

So I wonder which distro would be recommended for newbie - good docs, build environment to compile custom apps, etc... ?

Any sites for embedded linux newbies ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Rob.

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Robert Rozman
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Jason

What processor? Does it have a MMU?

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TCS

Hi,

thanks for response. I guess your question has got me into thinking that maybe I'm posting to wrong group. I'd like to do barebone minimal distro on my own, with no special target embedded HW - it can be general P4 PC. Is this group right to post such topics, or should I post some where else (like setup ,...) ?

Regards,

Rob.

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Robert Rozman

.hardware or .setup might be better.

In any case, for building small systems, I like gentoo. Boot the cdrom; create your partitions manually, copy the cdrom stage files to the HD. Then build the kernel and get it bootable. From there, have it compile the system and you're ready to go. As small or big as you want. I used gentoo for a remote tvset computer; built a kernel to mount an nfs partition and had my big desktop do all the compilation work by chrooting to that partition.

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TCS

Well, I am trying to talk my new employer into trying out an ARM-based embedded system.... Something along the lines of the TS-7000 from embeddedarm.com...

Any guidance for newbies on that one?

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Captain Dondo

BitBake and OpenEmbedded

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provide a distribution independent buildsystem and a huge metadata repository that can get you started in nearly no time.

We build the embedded linux distributions Familiar Linux, OpenZaurus, OpenSIMpad, OpenPsion etc. using these powerful tools.

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