I don't think so at all, no.
I think it's a very typical sort of in-group nerd communication: "here is the cool stuff that we do" with zero thought or consideration for explaining what the common assumptions are for a non-initiate.
The first time I encountered the project, I spent a while reading, baffled, then joined the mailing list and asked WTF it was.
It's a Linux distro, with a focus on build tools rather than apps, which aims at extreme portability between different CPU architectures and support for a wide variety of CPU types now generally considered as obsolete.
It's an offshoot and continuation of Rock Linux, which had a much better explanation on its old homepage: