Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 3rd Dec 2004 22:01 UTC
A project to create embedded versions of Gentoo Linux has achieved preliminary releases on x86, MIPS, PPC, and ARM. The releases include native core system binaries, cross-platform toolchains, and, for x86, an optional hardened toolchain. The year-old project needs developers to help add cross-compile awareness to source packages.
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Always imagined them building a small system from source, cross complied it and loaded it to the device. "The year-old project needs developers to help add cross-compile awareness to source packages." If they havn't fixed cross compiling yet then what have they achieved?
Well obviously its not a completely done project that will never be worked on again.
What have they acheived? They got all these news sites to report on it so that they can attract more developers for, among other things, adding cross-compile awareness to packages.
Oh, and embedded companies do use distros, though until more recently, they had to create their own for the most part. Building every single embedded project manually from scratch is a rediculous and unnecessary waste of time. Why couldn't one of those embedded distros have a Gentoo origin?