Buildroot [SEP] license
later of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The project started in 2001, with initial intentions to serve as a testbed for uClibc. New releases are made available every three months.
See also.
- BitBake a make-like build tool focusing on cross-compiled packages and embedded Linux distributions
- BusyBox a software project that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file
- Linux distribution an operating system made as a collection of software based on the Linux kernel and, often
installed cross-compilation toolchain can be used independently, while Buildroot only creates the root file system.
Buildroot is primarily intended to be used with small or embedded systems based on various computer architectures and instruction set architectures (ISAs), including x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC. Numerous architectures and their variants are supported; Buildroot also comes with default configurations for several off-the-shelf available embedded boards, such as Cubieboard, Raspberry Pi and SheevaPlug. Several third-party projects and products use Buildroot as the