This presentation shows how easy it can be to build an embedded system from the ground up, rather than trimming an existing general purpose GNU/Linux distribution.

It is mainly targetted at beginners in embedded systems, but it also gives useful tricks that more experienced people may not know about.

This presentation is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. It is available in several formats:

• PDF
  English, French, Portuguese (Brazil)
• OpenDocument format
  English, French, Portuguese (Brazil)
• HTML
  English, French, Portuguese (Brazil)

Corrections, suggestions, contributions and translations are welcome!