From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 0D6C7E00521; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:24 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3F23E002F9 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3483 invoked by uid 1003); 17 Dec 2014 21:19:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.109?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.45.99) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 17 Dec 2014 21:19:19 -0000 Message-ID: <5491F356.80403@balister.org> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:19:18 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Unland , "yocto@yoctoproject.org" References: <1418850045.7263.7.camel@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1418850045.7263.7.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Using YP for non-embedded purposes. X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:19:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/17/2014 04:00 PM, John Unland wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am developing a linux distro for small businesses and I am wanting to > have a easy to use tool to develop that OS. However with the main-line > distros there is a lot of hoops to jump over to get to that point > (re-branding, remove certain software, etc). So I was wondering is it > possible to use the tool and it's documentation to develop a > non-embedded linux using YP? I do not see any problem doing this, after all OpenEmbedded is a build system and scales form small to large systems. It is just most work is focused on the smaller end. Philip > > Thank you, > John >