Roll your own IoT Linux with Buildroot
Conclusions
Buildroot has evolved over the years into a build system that is well established and proven in the embedded world. Buildroot supports numerous use cases, from systems with as little as 1MB flash memory to Docker images for cloud deployment, to complex systems with a graphical stack or database. The principles of simplicity, flexibility, reproducibility, and maintainability make Buildroot an excellent choice for IoT systems. After cloning Buildroot via its Git repository [5], configuring it takes a little more than an hour. The reward is a final product that works very well.
Infos
- Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/
- Buildroot manual: https://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html
- NIST CVE report: http://autobuild.buildroot.org/stats/master.html
- Build server reports: http://autobuild.buildroot.org
- Buildroot (Git repository): https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
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