Buildroot maintainer Peter Korsgaard gave a presentation about the long history of the build tool for embedded Linux systems at the 2026 Embedded Linux Conference Europe. In it, he covered more than just the past 25 years, looking at the current status of the project as well as what to expect in Buildroot's future. It was an interesting view inside this long-running project that has been a mainstay of the embedded-Linux world throughout almost all of this century.