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Meeting the Yocto Project

This chapter introduces you to the Yocto Project. The main concepts of the project discussed here are constantly used throughout the book. In addition, we will briefly discuss the history of the Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, Poky, BitBake, metadata, and versioning schema. So, fasten your seat belt, and welcome aboard!

What is the Yocto Project?

The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup and is defined as follows:

The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems that are designed for embedded products regardless of the product’s hardware architecture. Yocto Project provides a flexible toolset and a development environment that allows embedded device ...

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