From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:08:19 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot and PTXDist In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130103110819.77f4326f@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Willy Lambert, On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:06:35 +0100, Willy Lambert wrote: > could someone help me in finding what's different between Buildroot > and PtxDist ? Both project seems active and both projects seems to do > the same thing (creating the rootfs from scratch) and AFAIK PTXDist in > a fork from buildroot. I don't know enough of PTXdist to make an objective and honest comparison being both projects. However, I am not sure PTXdist is really a fork of Buildroot. It certainly uses the same kconfig interface, and also uses make, but besides that, I am not sure that the PTXdist developers started off from Buildroot. In term of activity: * In 2011, 1093 commits in PTXdist, 1422 commits in Buildroot * In 2012, 1383 commits in PTXdist, 2645 commits in Buildroot A difference is that Buildroot is very community-driven, while PTXdist is driven by Pengutronix, and the vast majority of the contributions are done by Pengutronix engineers. In the 2476 commits of the last two years of development, 2116 were done by Pengutronix engineers. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com