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Buildroot 2010.08 released!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

On the last day of August, just in time, the 2010.08 version of Buildroot has been released. For the record, Buildroot is an easy-to-use embedded Linux build system: it can build your toolchain, your root filesystem with all its components … Continue reading →

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Buildroot 2010.02 released, contributions from Free Electrons!

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

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 … Continue reading →

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Free Electrons at ELCE 2009

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Michael Opdenacker

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 … Continue reading →

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Buildroot simplified for users!

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

Yesterday, a set of patches I’ve authored that aims at simplifying Buildroot for users has been merged into the official version of the project, and will therefore be part of the next stable release (scheduled for November, according to our … Continue reading →

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First Buildroot Developer Day after ELCE, on October 17th in Grenoble, France

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

The first Buildroot Developer Day will take place on Saturday, October 17th in Grenoble, France, just the day after Embedded Linux Conference Europe. This Developer Day aims at allowing Buildroot developers to meet and exchange ideas on the project and … Continue reading →

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On the road to Buildroot 2009.08

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

As I posted back in March, the Buildroot project has begun a new life since January. One of the aspects this new life is the fact that stable releases are delivered every three months. So we had one in February … Continue reading →

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Buildroot gains better support for external toolchains

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

Buildroot is a tool that I’ve already covered in a previous blog post. To me, its main purpose is to build the root filesystem for an embedded Linux system, with all the necessary applications and libraries. It automates the tedious … Continue reading →

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The Buildroot project begins a new life

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Thomas Petazzoni

The Buildroot project has been around for a quite a while. For those just discovering Buildroot, it is a set of Makefiles that ease and automate the process of building a cross-compilation toolchain (based on the uClibc C library, since … Continue reading →

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2008 contributions

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Michael Opdenacker

Here are the contributions that we made to the user and developer community in 2008, thanks to the customers who ordered our development, consulting and training services. As you can see, we do our best to have all our contributions … Continue reading →

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