From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from host4.kei.pl ([195.149.226.213] helo=smtp.host4.kei.pl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NB6zW-0004ew-Fh for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:09 +0100 Received: (qmail 2973 invoked by uid 813007); 19 Nov 2009 13:22:43 -0000 X-clamdmail: clamdmail 0.18a Received: from 195.149.226.213 (HELO home.localnet) (marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl@195.149.226.213) by 195.149.226.213 with ESMTPA; 19 Nov 2009 13:22:43 -0000 From: Marcin Juszkiewicz To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.32-rc7-00029-ga9366e6-dirty; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200911191422.43470.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 195.149.226.213 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl 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 13:24:09 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dnia czwartek, 19 listopada 2009 o 14:06:43 Hodgson, Simon napisa=C5=82(a): > I'm setting up a new machine with Linux specifically to use for > OpenEmbedded development. Which Linux distro should I go with? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. OpenEmbedded require Python 2.4 or newer. Debian lenny (stable) and squeeze= =20 (testing) should work fine. I use 'sid' for development. > 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? I use OpenEmbedded on Ubuntu 8.04 machine and Poky on 8.04/9.04/9.10 withou= t=20 problems.=20 So I suggest Debian 'testing' or Ubuntu 9.10/9.04 as a base. Regards,=20 =2D-=20 JID: hrw@jabber.org Website: http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinjuszkiewicz