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Qplus, An Open Source Embedded Linux Toolkit

Posted by timothy on from the into-yonder-wristwatch-ho dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this article at LinuxDevices.com, Jerry Epplin takes a detailed look Qplus, an open source embedded Linux toolkit, examining what the project has accomplished -- and what is still to be done. Epplin concludes that "...The introduction of Qplus is certain to be a welcome development for developers who have been hoping for a pure open source embedded Linux toolkit. It is already an impressively capable kit, with suitably ambitious goals and a well-designed infrastructure to achieve them.""

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  1. Where does this come from, exactly? by Otter · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm surprised to that such a serious looking project emerged from such a mysterious source. If I correctly understand the article and the results of some Googling, there's only a (soon to be Slashdotted) FTP archive containing the code and some PDFs that I can't open, apparently due to Korean character issues.

    Is this project Qt based? The screenshots seem to be from KDE 1.x.

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  2. DIY solutions by david.given · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Making an embedded Linux is easy --- fundamentally it consists of three binaries: the kernel, ash, and busybox.

    Unfortunately, when you add functionality it gets real complicated real quick. I tried putting together a turnkey Mozilla distro with an embedded Linux, KDrive X, and Mozilla. Did it work? Did it hell. Mozilla would just hang on startup, waiting for some service that wasn't there. I spent ages trying to find out why and eventually had to give up.

    I haven't looked closely at QPlus, because it's in Korea and is Slashdotted out of its tiny mind. What I'd really like is a source-based system, where I can just type 'make' in the top level and it will rebuild everything I'm using, libc and all. Unfortunately the review talks about RPMs, so I suspect it isn't.

    Has anyone here actually used QPlus and can comment on it?

    1. Re:DIY solutions by nesthigh · · Score: 2, Informative
      You might be interested in midori linux by Transmetta.It uses a web based configurator, and builds from source.It's been a while since it's been updated, but lately the CVS has been quite active.This is probably due to the flurry of tablet PCs using the transmetta chips.

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    2. Re:DIY solutions by j_kenpo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      "Unfortunately, when you add functionality it gets real complicated real quick. I tried putting together a turnkey Mozilla distro with an embedded Linux, KDrive X, and Mozilla. Did it work? Did it hell. Mozilla would just hang on startup, waiting for some service that wasn't there. I spent ages trying to find out why and eventually had to give up. "

      Interesting, I was trying to do something similar, but without X. I was using a few other Linux based GUIs, and the one I went with was an embedded GTK add on for GTK 2.0 without X. In the end I gave up and went with FreeDos with Arachne since it booted way faster out of the box, and it did exactly what I wanted.