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ELC 2010 program announced, a talk by Free Electrons

Posted by Thomas Petazzoni on March 15th, 2010 (rss, trackback, no comments)
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The program of talks and BOFs of the 2010 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference has been published a few days ago, an opportunity to look at the most important and interesting conference for embedded Linux developers. For the record, ELC 2010 will take place from April, 12th to April, 14th in San Francisco, CA, [...]

Buildroot 2010.02 released, contributions from Free Electrons!

Posted by Thomas Petazzoni on March 2nd, 2010 (rss, trackback, 1 comment)
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Buildroot is a embedded Linux system build system. It automates the process of downloading, configuring, compiling and installating all the components of an embedded Linux system, from Busybox to more complicated software stacks using Gtk, Qt, X.org, Gstreamer, etc. Buildroot is easy to use and extend, making it a nice choice for small to medium-sized [...]

Embedded Linux practical labs with the Beagle Board

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on November 25th, 2009 (rss, trackback, no comments)
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Get valuable embedded Linux experience using our practical labs on a Beagle Board.
We were asked to customize our embedded Linux training session with specific labs on OMAP 3530 hardware. After a successful delivery on the customer site, using Beagle boards, here are our training materials, released as usual under the terms of the Creative Commons [...]

Free Electrons at ELCE 2009

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on October 12th, 2009 (rss, trackback, no comments)
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As usual, we won’t miss this year’s edition of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, which has always been a great source of information and encounters for embedded Linux developers.
Here are details about our involvement this year.

I am part of the organization committee, in particular the coordinator for the Technical Showcase.
Taking advantage of his stay [...]

New jobs at Free Electrons

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on September 23rd, 2009 (rss, trackback, no comments)
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Looking for kernel and embedded Linux experts
Free Electrons is looking for experienced members of the Free Software community to satisfy increasing demand for development, consulting and training on embedded Linux and on the Linux kernel.
All the details can be found on our careers page.

ELC 2009 videos

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on August 5th, 2009 (rss, trackback, no comments)
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My Colleague Thomas and I had the priviledge to participate to the 2009 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference, which took place in San Francisco, on April 6-8. In spite of the weak economy, this event was once again a success. It attracted major developers from the embedded Linux community, as well as participants from [...]

Linux 2.6.30 – New features for embedded systems

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on July 7th, 2009 (rss, trackback, 1 comment)
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Interesting features in Linux 2.6.30 for embedded system developers
Linux 2.6.30 has been released almost 1 month ago and it’s high time to write a little about it. Like every new kernel release, it contains interesting features for embedded system developers.
The first feature that stands out is support for fastboot. Today, most devices are initialized in [...]

The Bifferboard: tiny, low power embedded x86 board

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on July 3rd, 2009 (rss, trackback, 3 comments)
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A nice, cheap and tiny x86 embedded board that runs Linux and just consumes 1W. It has all the basic connectivity you need in an embedded system.
As you may already know, we maintain a list of attractive and Linux friendly embedded boards. Whenever we find a new board that is attractive and meets our strict [...]

ELC Europe in Grenoble

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on April 6th, 2009 (rss, trackback, 4 comments)
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Just a quick note after the announcement that has just been made at the Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) in San Francisco…
Tim Bird has just announced that the next European edition of ELC will be in Grenoble, France, on October 15-16. As the new conference home page says, it will be colocated with ESWEEK.
We are very [...]

Free Electrons at ELC

Posted by Michael Opdenacker on March 25th, 2009 (rss, trackback, no comments)
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My colleague Thomas Petazzoni and I will participate to the Embedded Linux Conference on April 6-8 in San Francisco.
This is an exciting conference with a very interesting program, and we are proud to be part of it:

Monday, April 6, 7:30-9:00 pm
System size BOF (Michael)
Tuesday, April 7, 11:00-11:50 am
Update on filesystems for flash storage (Michael)
Tuesday, April [...]