[troubler]

I work with Yocto at my day job too. I hate it. I have 20 years of experience with Linux, and my favorite disto is Fedora. Fedora on arm is working much better than Yocto (except for DNF: 40,000 of available packages is too much for an embedded system, so at least 1GB of memory is required to run DNF).

[clarry]

Buildroot at work. Someone told me yocto is the future so I spent a week with it but it was a nightmare. Went back to buildroot.

Gentoo is quite intuitive by comparison.

[nrclark]

Fedora on ARM definitely works better than Yocto out-of-the-box. It's also much larger, and you don't have much control over the core components. You don't have control over how the packages were compiled, and you'd have a hard time reproducing your exact build later (especially if your flow includes a dnf update somewhere).

Yocto is the wrong tool if you're looking for a good developer Linux. It's a great tool if you're looking for a way to make a highly customized Linux image. It provides good reproducibility and strict license mechanisms to make sure you don't run afoul of anybody's open-source license. It also provides you with tools to compile and include your own recipes, and easy ways to modify upstream recipes without needing to fork the Yocto repos.

[troubler]

Fedberry is about same size as Yocto. Not a problem to customize RPM based distribution at all.

[StillBored]

Yah, extra bonus because you can upgrade the system with dnf upgrade/etc. Unlike yocto where its a PITA and requires an engineer to validate it works every-time you need a security patch.

Yocto is just another "The S in IOT stands for security" kind of problem.

[ernst_klim]

>Fedora on arm is working much better than Yocto

I concur. I've tried Yocto, was appalled by it. Then I've taken Centos 8, and it was a breeze to build for it, safe for some minor troubles.

I would choose Centos/opensuse/fedora/custom distro over Yocto anytime.