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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is pretty useless for embedded systems -- except when building your base image to start development from. But that is a task that one has to do regardless, so it doesn't really save any time. However, most embedded distributions have a package configuration toolset which manages squeezing data onto device memory, many taking into account size used when compressed as well as uncompressed and running from RAM. You also want a stable image to build your platforms from - bleeding edge has no place on embedded systems.
Shurik unfortunately has not used a commercial embedded linux distribution and the tools they bring with them, or has never compared it against the alternatives.
The distro I'm working on now blows all the other stuff I have previously used for settop development away - we can implement something in a week compared to what used to take (and still takes the competition) months.