Background
The structure of the Yocto Project makes more sense if you look at the background first. It's roots are in OpenEmbedded, http://openembedded.org/, which, in turn, grew out of a number of projects to port Linux to various hand-held computers, including the Sharp Zaurus and the Compaq iPaq. OpenEmbedded, which came to life in 2003 as the build system for those hand-held computers. Soon after, other developers began to use it as a general build asystem for devices running embedded Linux. It was developed, and continues to be developed, by an enthusiastic community of programmers.
The OpenEmbedded project is set out to create a set of binary packages using the compact IPK format, which could then be combined in various ways to create ...
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