What Embedded Linux Distros Would You Support?

dannys42 asks: "I work for a cool company that works with, among other things, embedded Linux systems. We'd like to provide an SDK for our customers and will likely support one or two Linux distros, plus Windows+Cygwin as build environments. Up until now, I'd assumed that most corporate developers were using Fedora, simply because of its similarity to Red Hat Enterprise and for its maturity. However, I'm curious to know, for those fortunate enough to develop for embedded Linux, what distribution do you expect to be supported for a build environment?"

Comments

Please don't tie it to a distro

[jnelson4765]

I prefer Fedora, my co-worker prefers Slackware - and we are equally productive. Supporting as many distros as possible would be a great goal - if you keep it as a completely seperate installation and don't try to "integrate" it into the host OS (I'm thinking of some Samsung printer drivers as a particularly bad example).

For example, Plone ships with its own version of Python and Zope to keep the host OS's versions of either from breaking the application, and lets you update the host OS independently of the application. This is a good thing.