[hemmerling] Linux 3/8 - Linux Boot Loaders, Linux Build Systems, Linux Installers and Linux Implementors

Related pages:

• Booting from Devices.
• Google Android.
• Linux 1/8.
• Linux 2/8 - Linux Distributions.
• Linux 4/8 - Linux Applications, Linux Tools and Linux Drivers.
• Linux 5/8 - SUSE 7.1 Linux on Clevo 2700c Notebooks with SIS630S Chipset.
• Linux 6/8 - Linux with X-Terminals and Terminals.
• Linux 7/8 - Linux on X86, X64 and ARM Computers.
• Linux 8/8 - Useful Linux Commands & Linux Tricks.

• DENX Software Engineering.
• linutronix GmbH.
• Pengutronix e.K.

• Timesys Corporation.

• Buildroot - “Making Embedded Linux Easy”.
  • DE.Wikipedia "Buildroot".
  • EN.Wikipedia "UClibc", DE.Wikipedia "UClibc".
  • EN.Wikipedia "Cross compiler".

• LTIB ( Linux Target Image Builder ) - A Perl tool, used by Freescale in the past.
  • EN.Wikipedia "LTIB".
• PTXdist - Reproducible Embedded Linux Systems by Pengutronix e.K.

• The Linux distribution OpenEmbedded.
  • GitHub "openembedded".
  • OpenEmbedded Metadata Index → It is important that you select a certain Yocto branch for your project.
  • EN.Wikipedia "OpenEmbedded", DE.Wikipedia "OpenEmbedded".

• The Angström Distribution.
  • BeagleBoard.org "Ångström Distribution".
  • eLinux.org "Dummies Guide to Building Angstrom Linux for MinnnowBoard".
  • Yocto Project "The Angstrom Distribution".
  • PathPartner Technology Pvt Lt "How to build Angstrom Linux Distribution for Altera SoC FPGA with OPEN CV & Camera Driver Support".

*The Linux buiilder Yocto Project.

• Wiki Yocto Project Wiki.
• Git Yocto Project Git.
• Yocto Project "Openembedded Core".
• Twitter "Yocto Project, @yoctoproject".
• EN.Wikipedia "Yocto Project".
• Tools:

1. EN.Wikipedia "BitBake", a Python script. Its operation does not depend on timestamps of files. Indeed, after modification of files, you should run the “bitbake clean” command.
2. Yocto Project "Hob".
3. Yocto Project Wiki "Toaster".

• The Linux distribution “Poky” - “A reference system of the Yocto Project”.
  • Poky Platform Builder.
  • Yocto Project "Poky".

• Timesys Corporation.
  • The commercial IDE Timesys Corporation "Optimize Your Application Development: TimeStorm Eclipse-based IDE".
  • The commercial service Timesys Corporation "Timesys LinuxLink: Build Embedded Linux Based Devices — Quickly".
  • Timesys Corporation "Timesys Factory(TM) — ‘No Compromise’ Custom Linux Platform Builder".

• See Booting from Devices.
• Wubi - See Linux 1/8.

• Microsoft SQL Server vNext of 2017-09 supports:
  • EN.Wikipedia "ext4", DE.Wikipedia "ext4".
  • EN.Wikipedia "XFS", DE.Wikipedia "XFS (Dateisystem)".

• EN.Wikipedia "Anaconda (installer)", DE.Wikipedia "Anaconda (Software)" - used by RedHat.
• EN.Wikipedia "YaST", DE.Wikipedia "YaST" - “AutoYast” used by SUN.
• GitHub.io "The Crowbar Project", GitHub "OpenCrowbar. Data Center Operations Framework & Bare Metal Deployment" - used by Dell.
  • GitHub.io "crowbar/crowbar" Wiki.
  • DELL "Free the Cloud with Dell Crowbar" - “Streamline configuration, deployment and use of your hardware in the cloud”.
• IBM uses “Chef” for the installation of the IT configuration management software “IBM The Cloud Manager with Openstack” ( CMwO ).
  • Chef ⇒ See Development and Operations ( DevOps ).
  • OpenStack ⇒ See Python.

• Plesk.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Plesk", DE.Wikipedia "Plesk".
• cPanel.
  • EN.Wikipedia "cPanel", DE.Wikipedia "cPanel".

• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux".
  • OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux: Embedded".
  • OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux: Platforms".
• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Embedded".
• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Realtime".
  • OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Realtime: Open Source".
  • OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Realtime: Linux".