honeycombOS

honeycombOS is an Embedded Linux Distribution tailored for IOTA nodes, clients and Tangle related tools. It is mainly based on Poky, and it is built with tools from Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded.

honeycombOS is part of my work on meta-iota, supported by the IOTA Ecosystem Development Fund.

Each build is based on machine configurations from a specific OpenEmbedded BSP layer tailored for the board. This allows for better performance when compared to one-fits-all kinds of Distros such as DietPi, Armbian and Raspbian, which usually provide a single binary image for many different board versions (to ensure backwards compatibility).

For Raspberry Pis 3 and 4, honeycombOS is 64-bits compatible, which means RPi’s SoC 64bit architecture is fully taken advantage of and data is moved around faster.