[oe] Which distro for OE development?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Nov 19 13:19:29 UTC 2009
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Hodgson, Simon wrote:
> I'm setting up a new machine with Linux specifically to use for
> OpenEmbedded development. Which Linux distro should I go with?
>
> I'm looking to make it as easy as possible to get started, so
> ideally all the packages I need will be available from that distro's
> standard repositry.
>
> I've tried SuSE in the past and given up trying to get all of the
> required tools installed, and more recently been using Debian, but
> the Python version in Debian is a few versions behind and there was
> talk of OE soon requiring a more up to date version.
>
> Ubuntu is a good candidate at the moment as I belive there won't be
> any hardware issues with the laptop I want to use, but this wiki
> page suggests there's some faffing to do
> http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Gcc_issues_in_Intrepid_and_later
> which I'd like to avoid if possible - does anyone know if these
> issues are present in the latest version 9.10?
despite my occasional(?) shrieks of outrage, fedora has generally
served me well for OE builds.
rday
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