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HOWTO – Mailing lists with Mailman on Ubuntu 10.04

Free Electrons is not in the system administration business (we offer free and open-source solutions for embedded systems), but we do our best to share whatever experience we acquire, and whatever code we produce. We configured a KVM virtual machine … Continue reading

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Free Electrons at the Android Builders Summit and the Embedded Linux Conference: one talk and video recording

A good part of the Free Electrons team will be in San Francisco (actually, not in San Francisco, but in the Bay Area) from February, 13th to 17th for the Android Builders Summit and the Embedded Linux Conference. The Android … Continue reading

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Free Electrons at FOSDEM: two talks and video recording

As usual, Free Electrons will again be present at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, on February, 4th and February 5th. We will of course mostly be attending the Embedded DevRoom, with multiple talks around development in the embedded space. We … Continue reading

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Buildroot Developer Day, Brussels edition

Around each FOSDEM conference and Embedded Linux Conference Europe event, we have been organizing a Buildroot Developer Day for a few years, in order to gather some developers and users of the Buildroot build system, in order to discuss the … Continue reading

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mkenvimage: a tool to generate a U-Boot environment binary image

Many embedded devices these days use the U-Boot bootloader. This bootloader stores its configuration into an area of the flash called the environment that can be manipulated from within U-Boot using the printenv, setenv and saveenv commands, or from Linux … Continue reading

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Buildroot 2011.11 released: details on new features

As planned, Buildroot 2011.11 has been released at the end of November. You can download this release as a tarball or through the Git repository. This release brings a set of new features on which I thought it would be … Continue reading

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Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 videos

One week after the end of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011, we are pleased to release the videos of all talks that took place during this event. We would like to thank the Linux Foundation for allowing us to … Continue reading

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Report from the Buildroot Developer Day

Right after the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, a new edition of the Buildroot Developer Day took place on Saturday, 29th October 2011 in Prague. Unlike past Buildroot Developer Day that were followed only by Buildroot developers and Yann E. Morin … Continue reading

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Free Electrons at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011

The next Embedded Linux Conference Europe will take place from October 26th to October 28th in Prague, together with the first edition of LinuxCon Europe and just after the Kernel Summit, the GStreamer conference and the Real-time Linux workshop: it’s … Continue reading

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Buildroot 2011.08 released!

As promised by the time-based release schedule, a new version 2011.08 of Buildroot has just been released. For those just coming in, Buildroot is a utility that automates the process of building an embedded Linux system: generating a cross-compilation toolchain … Continue reading

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