Submitted by Andreea on
The perks of catering to an open source community
“Oh, we know the Yocto Project, we use it for one of our projects.”
“So nice to hear that! So, what do you guys do?”
“We build software for rockets.”
Submitted by jefro on
The Yocto Project is proud to announce the addition of AMD as a new Gold member. In addition, Mentor Graphics is moving from Silver membership to Gold. For more information, see the press release as well as the April 1 announcement of a partnership between the two companies. The Yocto Project welcomes both organizations to Gold membership!
Submitted by jefro on
The Yocto Project is proud to announce the release of YP 1.6 "Daisy". This release has a number of new features, including a Linux kernel update to versions 3.14 and 3.10 LTSI, an EGLIBC update to 2.19, and a GCC update to 4.8.2. In addition, YP 1.6 adds support for building Python 3, for using % as a wildcard in bbappend filename, and added documentation features such as a new "Writing a New Recipe" section in the Development Manual and a completely revised BitBake User Manual.
Submitted by belenbarrospena on
If you saw the Toaster prototype at ELCE 2013 you might be wondering what is happening with it. Did we really build it?
Well: yes, we did, and as promised it will be part of the Yocto Project 1.6 "Daisy" release.
Submitted by jefro on
Many regular readers are familiar with the new Galileo board from Intel. This open-hardware board is based on the Quark SoC and provides Arduino compatibility with very high performance and great power management. (More information about the Galileo)
Submitted by jefro on
The Yocto Project is proud to welcome LG Electronics as a new member organization. LG joins the other 16 member organizations in helping to support and guide the project.
Submitted by khem on
There is comprehensive list of commonly used licenses in OE-Core under meta/files/common-licenses
however sometimes one might encounter a package which has a license that is not available in common-licenses
so here is how it goes, recipe for this package rightly has the LICENSE field
LICENSE = "OML"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "..."
Submitted by jefro on
For the second year, the Yocto Project has joined the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women by providing an internship. You can learn much more about this on our OPW page.
To get an idea about what the program is like within the project, you can take a look at a blog post from last year's intern.
Submitted by jefro on
Timesys, that venerable embedded Linux OS vendor who provided the first commercially viable real-time Linux distro waaay back in 2000 (beating MontaVista by only a few months), is still cranking out embedded Linux support, and this week they have announced a renewal of their engagement with the Yocto Project. They actually never left. As founding members of the Yocto Project, Timesys was valuable in helping to shape the project from its beginnings, and more recently they have
Submitted by jefro on
Forwarding from Khem Raj on the OE mailing list, augmented by Paul Eggleton:
I would like to invite everyone to the bug fixing weekend which is coming from Feb 21 to Feb 24
Bugs in NEW status for OE-Core & related categories:
All bugs/enhancements in NEW status in interesting categories:
