On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Rui Silva wrote: > > What's wrong with Gentoo? There are plenty of folks out there running > > Gentoo > > on embedded devices. > > it isn't targeted to embedded devices is it? is there a branch of > gentoo targeted and mainted to embedded devices???
The 2.6 kernel has options in it for building a tiny kernel for embedded use. Things like busybox and dietlibc are in Portage too. You could easily roll your own image for embedded stuff using chroot. > if i wanted to build a small one for ocasional use that would the > fine, but i'm thinking in updates in the future. If i go with some > distro that is mainted for embedded devices, i think I wouldn't have > problems updating, instead of having to build a new one over and over > again... Most "embedded" distros build updates as binaries on a separate (faster) machine. Using Gentoo to do this wouldn't be much different. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
