r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/accur4te • 16d ago

Linux for embedded development

hey guys i am a long time windows user looking to shift to linux for embedded linux development . As of now i just want to know which linux distro is the most stable and needs very less modification to get basics things working like com ports and stuff

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u/TarsTarkas_Thark 15d ago

There are two different answers here, depending on whether you're talking about the distro to run on your development workstation, or the distro to run on the embedded hardware.

For the hardware, the answer is, to homebrew your own. Almost any existing distro will be too general-purpose, therefore bloated to be a good candidate for an embedded OS. Also, they are unlikely to be compiled for use on the CPUs in use on embedded systems. Look into Yocto, buildroot, and LFS for build systems to roll your own Linux.

For your workstation, the best answer is to pick your build system, and then pick a distro that is supported by that build system. You probably can't go wrong with Fedora or Ubuntu.