From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NB6wT-0002aI-9Q for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +0100 Received: from cpe002129687b04-cm001225dbafb6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.235.241.187] helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NB6v7-00084R-8v for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: "openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.235.106.9 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: Which distro for OE development? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:21:00 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Hodgson, Simon wrote: > I'm setting up a new machine with Linux specifically to use for > OpenEmbedded development. Which Linux distro should I go with? > > I'm looking to make it as easy as possible to get started, so > ideally all the packages I need will be available from that distro's > standard repositry. > > I've tried SuSE in the past and given up trying to get all of the > required tools installed, and more recently been using Debian, but > the Python version in Debian is a few versions behind and there was > talk of OE soon requiring a more up to date version. > > Ubuntu is a good candidate at the moment as I belive there won't be > any hardware issues with the laptop I want to use, but this wiki > page suggests there's some faffing to do > http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Gcc_issues_in_Intrepid_and_later > which I'd like to avoid if possible - does anyone know if these > issues are present in the latest version 9.10? despite my occasional(?) shrieks of outrage, fedora has generally served me well for OE builds. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================