38.20.4. Linux distro choice

We haven’t found the ultimate distro yet, here is a summary table of trade-offs that we care about: Table 8, “Comparison of Linux distros for usage in this repository”.

Table 8. Comparison of Linux distros for usage in this repository
Distro Packages in single Git tree Git tracked docs Cross build without QEMU Prebuilt downloads Number of packages

Buildroot 2018.05

y

y

y

n

2k (1)

Ubuntu 18.04

n

n

n

y

50k (3)

Yocto 2.5 (8)

?

y (5)

?

y (6)

400 (7)

Alpine Linux 3.8.0

y

n (1)

?

y

2000 (4)

Other interesting possibilities that I haven’t evaluated well: