# Yocto (/integration/embedded_linux/os/yocto) The Yocto Project (YP) is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture. The project provides a flexible set of tools and a space where embedded developers worldwide can share technologies, software stacks, configurations, and best practices that can be used to create tailored Linux images for embedded and IOT devices, or anywhere a customized Linux OS is needed. This section objective is to ease to process of understanding the basic concepts of Yocto and to help beginners to start with Yocto.