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

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What processor? Does it have a MMU?

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.

.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.

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?

BitBake and OpenEmbedded

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

:M:

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