[Openembedded-users] Different DISTRO's

[Khem Raj]

On (02/02/11 08:09), Charles Krinke wrote:
> Can someone help me understand the differences between DISTRO settings
> like:   "angstrom-2008.1", "angstrom-2010-x" and similar angstrom variations
> besides the obvious that one is from 2008 and the other from 2010, please?

OE is infrastructure which is used by embedded distributions e.g. angstrom,
poky etc. Now angstrom has its own release versions as you can see it goes
by years "angstrom-2008.1" is angstrom version released first in 2008

Distributions have their own policies around package versions and features
they would support. e.g. toolchain versions or what ssh server to use eg.
 They would define the policies and yet leave room for
you to configure it to your needs with in the realms of policy as OE is
configurable you definitely want to leavarage that.

> 
> I suspect part of my issue is newness to OE and unfamiliarity with the
> nuances of the recipes and conf files as I am struggling just to figure out
> where the files are, much less how to intuit what the differences are in
> angstrom DISTRO variations.

Everyone starts somewhere, One downside of being flexible is it gets
difficult to understand the structure however there is some documentation
and we always welcome improvements to documentation and or wiki pages


> 
> -- 
> Charles Krinke

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