Dnia czwartek, 19 listopada 2009 o 14:06:43 Hodgson, Simon napisał(a): > 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.
OpenEmbedded require Python 2.4 or newer. Debian lenny (stable) and squeeze (testing) should work fine. I use 'sid' for development. > 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? I use OpenEmbedded on Ubuntu 8.04 machine and Poky on 8.04/9.04/9.10 without problems. So I suggest Debian 'testing' or Ubuntu 9.10/9.04 as a base. Regards, -- JID: [email protected] Website: http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinjuszkiewicz _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
