Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the Best for your Embedded Linux Project?
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 · on Wednesday, 2019-10-30· at 11:30· Forum 3·
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Debian yields fast proofs of concept using off‑the‑shelf images for Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone, but teams end up cloning a fragile golden master that is hard to document, bloats storage, increases attack surface and risks flash wear; apt is not atomic so field updates can corrupt devices. Yocto compiles from source with bitbake and layered metadata to produce minimal, reproducible images, license manifests and cross‑compiled kernels, but requires heavy build hardware, a steep learning curve and short community support windows.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:48About Chris Simmonds
- 1:31The dilemma
- 2:00Choices
- 3:42Board support for Debian
- 5:36Building a Debian rootfs
- 6:24Developing on Debian: first pass
- 8:03The "Golden Master"
- 8:42What can go wrong?
- 10:54Developing on Debian: second pass
- 12:39A note about software update
- 13:40Downsides of Debian
- 16:37Yocto Project OpenEmbedded
- 17:44Support for Yocto Project
- 18:27Building a rootfs with Yocto Project
- 19:27It's all in the metadata
- 21:12Downsides of Yocto Project
- 22:59Debian is best for...
- 24:13Yocto Project is best for ...
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