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+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
+[<!ENTITY % poky SYSTEM "../poky.ent"> %poky; ] >
+
+<chapter id='overview-manual-intro'>
+
+<title>The Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual</title>
+    <section id='overview-manual-welcome'>
+        <title>Welcome</title>
+
+        <para>
+            Welcome to the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual!
+            This manual introduces the Yocto Project by providing concepts,
+            software overviews, best-known-methods (BKMs), and any other
+            high-level introductory information suitable for a new Yocto
+            Project user.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            The following list describes what you can get from this manual:
+            <itemizedlist>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    <emphasis><link linkend='overview-yp'>Introducing the Yocto Project</link>:</emphasis>
+                    This chapter provides an introduction to the Yocto
+                    Project.
+                    You will learn about features and challenges of the
+                    Yocto Project, the layer model, components and tools,
+                    development methods, the Poky reference distribution,
+                    the OpenEmbedded build system workflow, and some basic
+                    Yocto terms.
+                    </para></listitem>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    <emphasis><link linkend='overview-development-environment'>The Yocto Project Development Environment</link>:</emphasis>
+                    This chapter helps you get started understanding the
+                    Yocto Project development environment.
+                    You will learn about open source, development hosts,
+                    Yocto Project source repositories, workflows using Git
+                    and the Yocto Project, a Git primer, and information
+                    about licensing.
+                    </para></listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            This manual does not give you the following:
+            <itemizedlist>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    <emphasis>Step-by-step Instructions for Development Tasks:</emphasis>
+                    Instructional procedures reside in other manuals within
+                    the Yocto Project documentation set.
+                    For example, the
+                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;'>Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual</ulink>
+                    provides examples on how to perform various development
+                    tasks.
+                    As another example, the
+                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_SDK_URL;'>Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK)</ulink>
+                    manual contains detailed instructions on how to install an
+                    SDK, which is used to develop applications for target
+                    hardware.
+                    </para></listitem>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    <emphasis>Reference Material:</emphasis>
+                    This type of material resides in an appropriate reference
+                    manual.
+                    For example, system variables are documented in the
+                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;'>Yocto Project Reference Manual</ulink>.
+                    As another example, the
+                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BSP_URL;'>Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide</ulink>
+                    contains reference information on BSPs.
+                    </para></listitem>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    <emphasis>Detailed Public Information Not Specific to the
+                    Yocto Project:</emphasis>
+                    For example, exhaustive information on how to use the
+                    Source Control Manager Git is better covered with Internet
+                    searches and official Git Documentation than through the
+                    Yocto Project documentation.
+                    </para></listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+        </para>
+    </section>
+
+    <section id='overview-manual-other-information'>
+        <title>Other Information</title>
+
+        <para>
+            Because this manual presents information for many different
+            topics, supplemental information is recommended for full
+            comprehension.
+            For additional introductory information on the Yocto Project, see
+            the <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink>.
+            If you want to build an image with no knowledge of Yocto Project
+            as a way of quickly testing it out, see the
+            <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BRIEF_URL;'>Yocto Project Quick Build</ulink>
+            document.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            For a comprehensive list of links and other documentation, see the
+            "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#resources-links-and-related-documentation'>Links and Related Documentation</ulink>"
+            section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
+            For a paper showing how to set up and run a quick build using the
+            Yocto Project, see the
+            "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BRIEF_URL;'>My First Yocto Project Build</ulink>"
+            paper.
+        </para>
+    </section>
+</chapter>
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