So you want to build an embedded Linux system?

Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? by drran on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:50AM (#24800795)

Yep. I used Fedora and Yocto on iMX6 SoloLite. Both use rpm&dnf. Fedora is much better. In fedora, I feel like at desktop: everything is the same, zero issues. In yocto, I feel like I returned in time for about 20 years: same f*ing bugs, which I reported or fixed years ago, again and again.

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Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? by ausjke on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:12AM (#24800981)

It really depends on your hardware, there are many systems with limited storage and memory where Fedora is impossible to fit. I do believe Yocto is the Gentoo for embedded linux, which is over-engineered to hell. The good news is that, unless you have some very special requirement, just use buildroot, which is 1/100 of the complexity and get the job done well. KISS.

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Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? by 05 on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:14AM (#24800992)

Using a package manager on an embedded system is just asking for trouble. Or read-write rootfs, for that matter.

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Re:So you want to build an embedded Linux system? by fullstop on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:43PM (#24804298)

I usually have a r/o rootfs as squashfs with overlayfs for changes. It makes it easy to wipe things back to factory defaults.

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