Hi Rene,
Glad to see you're still hanging around here, and thx for the clarifications. I got the impression that Open Embedded was very Gentoo-like in my research, but I'm still learning this stuff like a lot of us here. A question, then: how well does Familiar support Debian ARM binaries in practice? You mentioned in an earlier mail on the PDa topic that cross-compatibility was maintained for Familiar, but not for Open Zaurus, but I haven't found much mention anywhere (on Handhelds.org or Familiar list) of using Debian packages on Familiar. Just how much of a mess does this make?
d.
Rene Wagner wrote:
You are confusing "GUI environment", distribution, and build system here.
Opie and GPE are "GUI environments". They provide the user interface to the system.
Familiar is a distribution. Familiar provides you with pre-built images you can flash onto your handheld and numerous packages to install later.
OpenEmbedded is the build system that's used to build Familar (and Openzaurus and ...). It's basically a set of tools and package description files that allow you to build a distribution (i.e. a set of packages and images) from scratch (including the toolchain and everything cross compilation related).