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title: "Best Yocto Tutorial"
author: "James Pace"
date: "2024/01/26"
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The [Yocto Project](https://www.yoctoproject.org/) is a project that develops
a set of tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution.

Yocto can be overly complex, and the official documentation, while complete,
does not provide a great on ramp.
It's pretty easy to do the "first step" sort of stuff, but the learning curve
after that is sort of a cliff.

The best documentation I've found for learning Yocto (which I'm currently working through)
is the slides and labs from Bootlin's Yocto Training, which can be found online for free
[here](https://bootlin.com/training/yocto/).

After reading through the slides, I had a lot more clarity when looking at other examples
I found online.

I'm still working through the labs, and will post things I learn on this site as
I learn them.