The Yocto Challenge
Yocto releases a new version every 6 months, prioritizing the latest "bleeding edge" packages. Regular maintenance is often limited to 1 year, and even LTS versions rarely exceed 2 years without significant manual effort or external funding.
The ELinOS Solution
We provide a professional 5-year regular maintenance period, extendable to 10+ years on request. By using Debian as our robust source baseline, we can provide long-term security patches for Open Source (OSS) packages that outlast community support by a decade.
The Yocto Challenge
Security monitoring and patch backporting are DIY tasks. If a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) hits your kernel or libraries, your team must stop feature development, manually analyze the impact on the system, update the repositories and rebuilt the project. This process requires a continues monitoring and short response times.
The ELinOS Solution
SYSGO takes full responsibility for security monitoring and professional maintenance. Our customers also benefit from professional services for BSP and driver development, allowing your team to focus 100% on the application layer while we handle the low-level infrastructure.
The Yocto Challenge
Yocto builds everything from source. The initial setup is time-consuming, requires high-performance build servers, and has strict host OS dependencies. Turn-around times are often slowed down by heavy recipe parsing and rebuilding on modifications.
The ELinOS Solution
ELinOS uses pre-compiled target and host tools. This results in an incredibly fast initial setup and low dependencies on your host system. Because you aren't rebuilding the world every time, turn-around times are significantly shorter, boosting daily productivity.
The Yocto Challenge
Configuration is managed through complex text-based recipes and bitbake layers. This requires highly specialized Linux knowledge and carries a steep learning curve for new team members.
The ELinOS Solution
CODEO provides an intuitive GUI for project setup and configuration. With wizards and graphical tools, even developers less experienced with Linux can configure a complex system. Furthermore, ELinOS supports Windows hosts, a feature notoriously absent in native Yocto environments.
The Yocto Challenge
Including a new application requires writing a recipe and modifying multiple configuration files. You must manually track down every library dependency—a process known as "dependency hell."
The ELinOS Solution
Simply Drag-and-Drop your application into the CODEO IDE. Our integrated Library Dependency Resolver automatically scans your binary, identifies all required libraries, and includes them in the target image. What takes hours in Yocto takes seconds in ELinOS.
The Yocto Challenge
Without deep manual optimization of layers and recipes, Yocto builds can be bloated, leading to slow boot times and high memory usage.
The ELinOS Solution
The Feature Configurator allows you to easily toggle drivers and services on or off via a graphical interface. By including only what is strictly necessary, ELinOS produces high-performance images with a minimal memory footprint and ultra-fast boot times by default.
The Result
You move from a source-heavy Yocto workflow to the binary-based ELinOS workflow—dramatically reducing setup effort and allowing engineers to focus on product features instead of build maintenance.
ELinOS BSP List
Yocto BSP Usage in ELinOS
Get your Hands on ELinOS
Get your Hands on ELinOS
We offer a fully functional, free ELinOS test version that comes with CODEO, allowing you to explore its powerful features, including development, debugging, and hardware emulation.