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Creating Your Own Distribution
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-When you build an image using the Yocto Project and do not alter any
-distribution :term:`Metadata`, you are using the Poky distribution.
+When you build an image using the Yocto Project and follow the default setup
+showcased in :doc:`/dev-manual/start`, you are using the :term:`Poky` reference
+distribution.
+
Poky is explicitly a *reference* distribution for testing and
development purposes. It enables most hardware and software features
so that they can be tested, but this also means that from a security