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Embedded Linux Session 1

Agenda items:

1. What's embedded Linux?
2. What do we want to do with embedded Linux?
3. What do we need?

Present:

• Mohamed Nour El-Din
• Islam Hassan
• Haitham Al-Ghareeb
• Mahmoud Tantawy
• Ahmed Mamdouh
• Samar Ali
• Osama Mongy
• Anas Emad

Conclusion:

• The main steps of developing embedded Linux:
  1. Compiling the kernel
  2. Compiling the file system
  3. Adding utilities to the file system
  4. Installing the boot loader onto the board
  5. Deploying the system on the board

• We'll make our own embedded Linux edition using tools to automate the process like openEmbedded.

• We'll will use a ready made cross compiler like crosstool-ng.

• We agreed to study the introduction to Linux command line tutorial from free-electrons.com before the next meeting and download the embedded Linux tutorial that would be used for the rest of the workshop Download both from here.

• The next meeting will be either in Offok center in Muhandessin, or, if they didn't agree, a center near Rab'a Al-Adaweya Mosque. The meeting time is next Friday (15/ Jul) at 2 P.M. as indicated in the team's Google calender and loco event.