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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
+
+=====================
+BitBake Documentation
+=====================
+
+|
+
+BitBake was originally a part of the OpenEmbedded project. It was inspired by
+the Portage package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. In
+2004, the OpenEmbedded project was split the project into two distinct pieces:
+
+-  BitBake, a generic task executor
+-  OpenEmbedded, a metadata set utilized by BitBake
+
+Today, BitBake is the primary build tool of OpenEmbedded based projects, such as
+the Yocto Project.
+
+The BitBake documentation can be found :doc:`here <bitbake:index>`.
diff --git a/documentation/index.rst b/documentation/index.rst
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Welcome to the Yocto Project Documentation
    Application Development and the Extensible SDK (eSDK) <sdk-manual/index>
    Toaster Manual <toaster-manual/index>
    Test Environment Manual <test-manual/index>
-   Bitbake User Manual <https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake>
+   bitbake
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1