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Emulation, Simulation and Native Development

There are many ways to develop applications for embedded Linux devices. The obvious method is to cross-compile on your host and debug on real hardware. This is probably how most...

16 years 3 months ago

Git - Version Control for Grumpy Old Men?

Over the years I have used several version control tools. They have served me well and generally I have been happy with them all (I still use RCS, CVS and Subversion) so why do I...

16 years 3 months ago

Live from the embedded world 09 fair, Nueremberg, Germany

It’s an exciting fair this year. Not only the number of exhibitors raised by a two digit number while another fair the same week had a significant drop in numbers, but also the new...

16 years 3 months ago

Qt 4.5 Full of Surprises

Qt 4.5 was released today . As expected, it comes with the adoption of the LGPL license which should make Qt free for commercial development if you so choose. I think this will be...

16 years 3 months ago

LiMo and Wind River

Wind River announced yesterday that they have been chosen by the LiMo Foundation (Linux Mobile) as the system integrator for the LiMo platform. Read the press release here: http:/...

16 years 4 months ago

Friday Trivia

Time is an illusion, UNIX time doubly so… This is one for all the numerologists out there to ponder. Next Friday, 13th Feb 2009, at 11:31:30 PM GMT/UTC UNIX time, the number used...

16 years 4 months ago

Mono: Help or hindrance

.Net; The life raft and framework of Windows based programming, now conquered by the penguin. Will mono affect peoples’ choice of embedded OS, now the flightless mascot has...

16 years 4 months ago

Linux and WiMAX become friends - finally

It looks like the next Linux kernel release 2.6.29 (RC3 as of now) will contain WiMAX support (stack, and device driver for Intel® WiMAX/WiFi Link 5050) finally, after some tries...

16 years 4 months ago

Happy Birthday, Eclipse!

Five years ago, on February 2nd, 2004 the Eclipse Board of Stewards announced Eclipse’s reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation . This was the start of a great success...

16 years 4 months ago

Workbench plug-ins - Adding the 3rd party functionality

Recently, during many customer engagements, a common question has started to emerge, “What additional plug-ins are there for Workbench (Eclipse) for version control, i.e...

16 years 4 months ago