Submitted by jefro on
Thanks very much to all who participated in the Yocto Project community survey! We have a winner for the t-shirt: Marc F., you'll be receiving your shirt shortly.
Thanks again to everyone, and have a happy holiday!
Submitted by jefro on
These videos were shown at the Embedded Linux Conference / LinuxCon in Prague, CZ in October. Enjoy!
Submitted by davest on
The Linux Foundation did a nice little two-minute video clip of Jefro, our Yocto Project Community Manager, talking about last October's 1.1 release, and the upcoming 1.2 release planning. Check it out!
Jefro claims that he looks kind of sleepy, but clearly the camera loves him!
Submitted by davest on
I've noticed a disturbing trend amongst a few of the high quality wineries in my state. They have abandoned the cork to close their high-end wine bottles and turned to screw caps.
This is good news to people who struggle with how to get a cork out of a wine bottle. And wine snobs will point to the countless studies which show that metal tops eliminates the possibility that the cork has gone bad and spoiled the wine.
Submitted by jefro on
In October, following the release of the 1.1 (Edison) version, Yocto Project engineers embarked on a challenging project: to create a new embedded product using the Yocto Project tools in three weeks. The result is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device called Baryon, based on the Intel Black Sand (Intel Atom N450) single-board computer. This layer turns a Black Sand into a fully-functional NAS.
Submitted by davest on
Much has been written about how the Internet has revolutionized collaboration and made it possible for your brilliant ideas to make a difference no matter where you live on the planet. Bill Gates is famously quoted in Nick Kristoff's "The World is Flat" that "... so many people can plug and play from anywhere, natural talent has started to trump geography." This is of course true, but even with the Internet, there is no replacement for face-to-face interaction.
Submitted by davest on
Back in my college days, I sang in the University Chorus, one of those big choirs who sang a variety of pieces, mostly classical and rarely a more contemporary song. One time we had a young music director who was rehearsing us on a newer piece with just a piano player. When we had most of the vocal parts worked out, he announced that at the next rehearsal, the piano would be joined by guitars and percussion. "Then," he said to us with a twinkle in his eye, "the piece will really begin to cook."
Submitted by joshual on
For the last 18 months or so I've been working full-time on the Yocto Project, where I've touched various parts of the system. I'm really proud of what our team has achieved - we have an amazing tool that people want to use! Despite that, there are still some common tasks that users can't achieve as easily as we'd like...
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Submitted by sgarman on
The Yocto Project's developers have been working hard to improve the usability of our software, especially its "out of the box" user experience. One area that has admittedly been a thorn in our side is when users need to access the internet via a network proxy server*. I thought I'd take a few moments to explain the situation, why we don't have a "silver bullet" solution yet, and how to work around it.
