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Yocto is the recommended distribution for most applications since it contains all of the packages and patches to support accelerated X11 drivers, OpenGLES 1&2, GStreamer acceleration, as well as patches to QT to support using these accelerations.  Yocto also provides a set of cross toolchains that match the deployed environment which allow development in QT Creator, Eclilpse, and moreWhile the cross toolchains are a big upside, this distribution does not have automated updates (like apt-get or yum) and is not ideal for projects concerned with security updates.
Yocto is our recommended distribution for graphics packages as the software includes patches to support the GPU.  X11 in Yocto includes drivers for providing 2D support as well.  Support is also provided for OpenGLES 1&2, as well as GStreamer acceleration, included standalone or with Qt.  Yocto also provides cross toolchains that include the rootfsThis toolchain allows integration with the Qt Creator IDE and Eclipse.


Our current Yocto support is based off of Yocto 1.8 "Fido".
Yocto does not provide binary security updates.  This distribution also does not have any remote repository of pre-built applications.  For either of these we features we recommend using Debian.
 
Our current Yocto support is based off of Yocto 3.0 "Zeus".

Latest revision as of 17:05, 20 March 2020

Yocto is our recommended distribution for graphics packages as the software includes patches to support the GPU. X11 in Yocto includes drivers for providing 2D support as well. Support is also provided for OpenGLES 1&2, as well as GStreamer acceleration, included standalone or with Qt. Yocto also provides cross toolchains that include the rootfs. This toolchain allows integration with the Qt Creator IDE and Eclipse.

Yocto does not provide binary security updates. This distribution also does not have any remote repository of pre-built applications. For either of these we features we recommend using Debian.

Our current Yocto support is based off of Yocto 3.0 "Zeus".