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O'Reilly Offers New Book: Building Embedded Linux Systems

Concepts, techniques, tricks, and traps on putting together embedded systems based on Linux.

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September 14, 2008

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Building Embedded Linux Systems from O'Reilly Media, Inc. (Sebastopol, CA) is a new book release offering practical information pertaining to the use of Linux in embedded systems. This Second Edition ($49.99) is an in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together embedded systems based on Linux.

Updated for the latest version of the Linux kernel, this second edition gives the basics of building embedded Linux systems, along with the configuration, setup, and use of more than 40 different open source and free software packages in common use. The book by Karim Yaghmour, Jonathan Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef looks at the strengths and weaknesses of using Linux in an embedded system, plus offers a discussion of licensing issues, and an introduction to real-time, with a discussion of real-time options for Linux.

This book also offers previously undocumented procedures that explain how to build your own GNU development toolchain; select, configure, build, and install a target-specific kernel; create a complete target root file system; and more.

For more information, please contact O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

 

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