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Starting Fedora 2 teaches you every thing you must comprehend in an effort to set up, configure, use, and hold Fedora. This publication particular basically at readers who're utilizing (or making plans to take advantage of) the Fedora Linux working approach for the 1st time. It deals the straightforward, plain-speaking tips you would like as you start to discover the massive strength of open resource software.The key beneficial properties of the e-book contain the subsequent: * fitting Linux, particularly how you can organize so you do not get any nasty surprises midway via * the fundamentals of Linux, together with a journey of the computer interface and the way to take advantage of person bills, the Linux dossier process, configuration, and handling your machine's assets * Configuring your Linux computer to connect with the net, or to an area region community, for you to begin to ship and obtain e-mails and use the web * fitting new applications, upgrading applications, and removal applications * Exploring the various functions to accomplish daily initiatives, equivalent to net browsers, workplace purposes, and MP3 gamers * Explaining how one can use the shell, together with combining instructions right into a script, defining the enter to (and output from) a script, and the way to construct logical constructions into scripts, get them to run in particular conditions, and deal with a number of initiatives even as * an in depth clarification of the Linux dossier procedure, easy methods to deal with your records and directories, and the way to take advantage of the shell to generate and manage the output from predefined or customized scripts * Configuring your Linux laptop to supply prone to different machines on a community, corresponding to how you can set your computing device up as a FTP server, an internet server, a dossier server, a printer servers, a mail server, or a DHCP server * management themes, similar to the right way to research procedure log documents and use them to trace down issues of the procedure, backups and data, tarballs, and discover the way to customise and recompile the Linux kernel * utilizing scripting, in particular Perl, to automate the typical activity of dealing with the log records * Securing your computer utilizing a firewall New positive factors contain find out how to perform the Fedora neighborhood, concepts for operating in an unsupported atmosphere, how you can stay alongside of center releases, and extra!
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Compiling the Toolchain for Different Architectures If you are a Windows or Mac OSX user, you are probably running the Yocto build using a virtual machine. At this point, you might be asking if you can create a toolchain for your native operating system, instead of using virtual machines for everything, including the toolchain. 52 Chapter 2 ■ Native Development The answer is yes, and it is very simple to create a toolchain for other architectures, even if you have a Linux machine, because it is one of the proposals of the Yocto build system.
You will use the IPK files in this book. Some sanity tests are done during the generation of output files (QA tests) until all the necessary packages are created and fed (package feeds) to generate the final output images (Image and Application Development SDK). Note that you will need an Internet connection, because lots of code will be downloaded to complete the build process. The Build System Tree at a Glance In the next section you will learn how to download metafiles and Poky to build Intel Galileo images and your toolchain.
However, in order to better understand how Poky works, and the build system in general, let’s build an Intel Galileo image and discuss step by step what’s going on during the procedure. Figure 2-1 was created by a Yocto project team and represents the Yocto build system flow. Figure 2-1. The Yocto build system flow 37 Chapter 2 ■ Native Development Figure 2-1 shows how the Yocto build process works. It warrants a few paragraphs to explain each step. bb + patches). The build process starts downloading the components from remote repositories, fetching local packages, HTTPS, web sites, FTP sites, and so on, as shown in the Source Mirror(s).
