Author Archives: Thomas Petazzoni

About Thomas Petazzoni

Thomas Petazzoni is an embedded Linux and kernel engineer at Free Electrons. He is a lead developer of Buildroot and also a contributor to the Linux kernel. More details...

Linux kernel 3.8 released, Free Electrons top #17 contributor

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Thomas Petazzoni

Early last week, version 3.8 of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds. The KernelNewbies web site, has, as usual, a great summary of what’s new in this release, together with lots of links to the relevant LWN … Continue reading →

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Videos of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2012

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Thomas Petazzoni

With the approaching Embedded Linux Conference, to be held February 20-22 in San Francisco, we felt that it was time to finally fight with ffmpeg/libav and get the videos we had taken from the last Embedded Linux Conference Europe talks, … Continue reading →

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Videos of the Embedded track at FOSDEM 2012

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Thomas Petazzoni

Better late than never: we finally found the time to update our video encoding scripts, and therefore encode and upload the videos we had taken of the embedded track at FOSDEM 2012. Amongst many other interesting talks, you’ll notice two … Continue reading →

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Free Electrons at the Libre Software Meeting

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

In a previous post, we detailed all the talks of the Embedded Systems and Open Hardware track of the Libre Software Meeting, taking place in Geneva in early July. Free Electrons will have a quite important presence at this event, … Continue reading →

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Embedded topics at the Libre Software Meeting, Geneva, July 9-11

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

The Libre Software Meeting is a community-driven free software event that exists since 2000, composed of talks and workshops. Its 2012 edition will take place from July 7th to July 12th in Geneva, Switzerland. In the context of this conference, … Continue reading →

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Embedded Linux Conference 2012 videos

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

The 2012 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference took place on February 15-17th 2012 at Redwood Shores near San Francisco in California. Three engineers of Free Electrons attended this conference, and we reported every day our impressions about the talks, … Continue reading →

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Android Builders Summit 2012 videos

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

On February 13-14th 2012, the second edition of the Android Builders Summit took place in Redwood Shores, near San Francisco in California. While Free Electrons was not officially in charge of video recording for this conference, we recorded the talks … Continue reading →

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Embedded Linux Conference day 3

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

Finally, the last day of the 2012 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference has arrived. Including the Android Builders Summit, it was a very busy week with five full days of presentations, a very intensive learning session, but also highly … Continue reading →

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Embedded Linux Conference day 2

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

Day 2 of the Embedded Linux Conference started with a keynote titled The Internet of Things, given by Mike Anderson. With such a title, one could have feared some kind of very fuzzy-marketing-style kind of keynote, but with Mike Anderson … Continue reading →

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Embedded Linux Conference day 1

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Thomas Petazzoni

The first day of the Embedded Linux Conference started on Wednesday here at Redwood City, California. The day started with the usual Kernel Report from Jonathan Corbet. It was, as usual with Corbet’s talk, a very interesting summary of what … Continue reading →

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