Poky is a reference distribution of the Yocto Project®. It contains the OpenEmbedded Build System (BitBake and OpenEmbedded Core) as well as a set of metadata to get you started building your own distro. To use the Yocto Project tools, you can download Poky and use it to bootstrap your own distribution. Note that Poky does not contain binary files – it is a working example of how to build your own custom Linux distribution from source.
Poky是Yocto Project的一个参考发行版。它包含了OpenEmbedded构建系统(BitBake和OpenEmbedded Core)以及一套元数据,让你开始构建自己的发行版。为了使用Yocto项目的工具,你可以下载Poky并使用它来启动你自己的发行版。请注意,Poky不包含二进制文件--它是一个如何从源代码构建你自己的自定义Linux发行版的工作实例。
而Poky名字的由来,有两种说法。
一种是:"Poky" in English means "small". The idea being that the distro is engineered to build small OS images for small embedded devices.
"Poky "在英语中是 "小 "的意思。意思是,名为Poky的参考发行版是为小型嵌入式设备建立小型操作系统图像。
另一种说法,是由巧克力棒食品而来,我们经常可以看到的一个品牌。
All the names of Yocto (or better openembedded, which is it's ancestor) have to do with food. There is bitbake, cooker, toaster, and what not.
Pocky is a brand of chocolate coated bisquit sticks. (Not very international, I have not seen them.) But using a trademarked (I assume) name might end up in trouble, so they changed the spelling but kept the pronunciation.
Yocto(或者说openembedded,Yocoto的源头)的所有名字都与食物有关。有bitbake、cooker、toaster,还有其他的。
Pocky是一种巧克力涂层的饼干棒品牌。但使用一个有商标的名字可能会有麻烦,所以他们改变了拼写,但保留了发音。
参考:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675537