How to build a fso-based distribution

[Al Johnson]

Openmoko aren't developing a distro any more.

On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> Thanks Johnson!I think I should follow your suggestions to build a
> shr-unstable version.
> Do you know which is the main distribution being developed by OpenMoko ?
> In fact, I want to following their steps to develop.
> 
> 2009/10/7 Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk>
> 
> > On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >     I want to build a fso-based distribution for my freerunner and want
> >
> > to
> >
> > > do some developments.
> > >     Where can I find some building instructions for some distribution
> >
> > which
> >
> > > is based fso framework?
> > >     I found that there are a link to
> > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, Is this instruction is
> > > valid now? should I follow this page to build?
> >
> > FSO no longer make a distro, but it is used in several others. The
> > closest to
> > the old FSO distro would be SHR which also uses OpenEmbedded. The
> > instructions
> > at [1] give a quick start guide, but it may be better to use shr-unstable
> > instead of shr-testing as it suggests. You should look at some
> > OpenEmbedded and/or bitbake tutorials for more information on how the
> > build system works.
> >
> > You could also use Debian, which is uses as a basis for the Hackable1 and
> > QtMoko distros, or OpenWRT [3]
> >
> > [1] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Building SHR
> > [2] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki
> > [3] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWRT#Build_custom_image
> >
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