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Introduction

Gumstix uses Linux® OpenEmbedded, a build environment that allows you to build rootfs images, packages and custom software in a easy way.

There are different rootfs images (gumstix images) that provide software bundles depending on your application needs. Applications can be installed on this base system as software packages with ipkg.



Starting

Setup the build environment and bitbake the image of your choice depending on your application needs.



Gumstix images


Image Size Description Status
gumstix-minimal-image ~7.8 MB Builds a gumstix minimal system ok
gumstix-basic-image ~9.0 MB Builds a gumstix minimal system (gumstix-minimal-image) + cron, ntp, ntpdate, mtd-utils and boa webserver ok
gumstix-perl-image ~9.7 MB Builds gumstix-basic-image + perl ok
gumstix-goliath-image
gumstix-qtopia-console-image ~10.9 MB Builds a basic gumstix root filesystem plus non-GUI Qtopia libraries
gumstix-qtopia-gui-image ~15.5 MB work-in-progress
gumstix-x11-image ~14.8 MB Builds a gumstix minimal system (gumstix-minimal-image) + plus KDrive (Xserver), the matchbox window manager and GTK+ ok
gumstix-x11-full-image gumstix x11 image + midori work-in-progress
gumstix-x11-32mb-image ~17.7 MB gumstix x11 image + midori work-in-progress
gumstix-microwindows-image --- work-in-progress
gumstix-directfb-image ~10.8 MB gumstix-basic-image + DirectFB 1.1.0 (packages directfb and directfb-examples) ok


Recipes to build gumstix images are stored in gumstix-oe/com.gumstix.collection/packages/images/



Packages

Example code

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