Amber Graner is the Community Architect and Catalyst at Linaro. She setup a whole range of Google+ Hangouts On Air at the Linaro Connect conference, allowing people worldwide join into the simultaneous live sessions that go on during the whole week.
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Jesse Barker at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 31, 2012
Jesse Barker leads the Graphics Working Group at Linaro.
Deepak Saxena at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 31, 2012
Deepak Saxena talks about his work on the ARM Linux Kernel and being the tech lead for the Linaro team working on that.
David Rusling, Linaro CTO, at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 31, 2012
David Rusling talks about the future of Linux on ARM, the work being done at Linaro.
David Mandala of Canonical at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 31, 2012
David Mandala talks about Ubuntu on ARM, the direction of it going onto servers and Canonical’s involvement in Linaro.
Ubuntu on Android at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 31, 2012
The most exciting thing is once the ARM Processors in phones are powerful enough to run a full desktop/laptop. Thus simply dock the Android phone and output a full Linux on your larger monitor.
Tizen prototype
Posted by – May 31, 2012
I’m checking out a Tizen development kit prototype for the first time. I’m not sure I understand the meaning of it, it seems there is not coming much out of Maemo, Meego, Limo, Bada etc. At least not yet. This looks to be a semi-continuation of Intel’s and Nokia’s open source project which makes me extra dubious.
Arnd Bergmann talks Kernel at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 30, 2012
Arnd Bergmann talks about his work on the ARM Linux Kernel and more.
Novacut Video Editor for Ubuntu Linux
Posted by – May 30, 2012
Novacut is a new Linux powered video-editing software system that provides for online and offline collaborative video-editing tools and workflow. It is open-source and free, available at http://novacut.com. The initial target is small indie filmmakers who need a fast efficient method for a web series or low budget film. People who have the flexibility to use a new program and build a work flow around Novacut. Eventually, Novacut plans to replace Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere and every other video-editing systems by providing better, faster and more advanced video-editing tools by being free and open source. Their business model is in the optional video distribution system that can go with the software.
Mathieu Poirier of the ST-Ericsson Landing Team at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 30, 2012
Mathieu Poirier talks about how Android came up on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball platform.
Rockchip RK3066 is now Google Certified
Rockchip announces:
RK3066 is ready for Google GMS on Android 4.0.4
– Android CTS ALL PASSED
detail: http://source.android.com/compatibility/cts-intro.html
– Google WIDEVINE DRM Supported
detail: http://www.widevine.com/
– OTA (over-the-air) Update Supported
Jon Masters of Red Hat talks Bootloaders at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 30, 2012
Jon Masters is in charge of Red Hat Fedora on ARM, he’s at Linaro Connect to discuss Linux on ARM Bootloaders and other Linux on ARM issues.
Dell unveils ARM Powered servers
Check out the articles on Google News.
The 3U rackmount chassis has 48 ARM servers with a total of 192 processor cores, with each ARM server drawing a maximum of 15 watts of power. Each server uses Marvell’s quad-core Armada XP 78460 chip, which runs at 1.6GHz, and has error correction features, networking and storage components.
Related articles
- See what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers (gigaom.com)
Paul McKenney of IBM at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 29, 2012
Paul McKenney talks about the ARM big.LITTLE Linux kernel work.
Noritsuna Imamura and Akira Tsukamoto at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 29, 2012
Noritsuna Imamura of OESF hacks a heart rate sensor for Android and Akira Tsukamoto reaches out to open source developers at Linaro in Japan.
$74 Boxchip A10 HDMI stick
Posted by – May 28, 2012
This Boxchip based HDMI stick has been talked about over the past couple weeks on some blogs under the names MK802, Zero Devices Z802 etc. The Bill of Materials for this device might be as low as $20 but it’s being sold at around $70 at retail at the moment. Here’s a link to buy it for $70 on Amazon: http://amzn.to/MVjdxQ
Related articles
- $74 PC-on-the-go released, ICS on board (thegadgetsite.com)
- A $74 micro PC ‘MK802’ runs Android 4.0 and Linux (ibnlive.in.com)
- 74 USD AllWinner A10 Android 4.0 Mini PC (electronics-lab.com)
- $74 Android PC on a Stick Sells Out, Stock to Return in June (hothardware.com)
- New $74 Android mini computer is slightly larger than a thumb drive (arstechnica.com)
- $74 MK802 Android micro-PC take on the Cotton Candy, RasPi (geek.com)
- $74 Android 4.0 powered PC on a stick goes on sale (electronista.com)
- $74 PC on a USB Stick Sold Out (for Now) (scientificamerican.com)
- $74 MK802 PC-on-a-stick beats Cotton Candy to market, has ICS on board (engadget.com)
Bernhard Rosenkränzer talks Linaro Android Toolchain at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
Bernhard Rosenkränzer (bero on IRC) works on the Toolchain for Linaro Android. In this video, he talks to Zach Pfeffer Linaro’s Android Tech Lead about the work being done on the Linaro Android Toolchain.
Patrik Klinger of ST-Ericsson at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
ST-Ericsson ramps up their work with Linaro. Patrik Klinger, Program Manager at ST-Ericsson talks to Zach Pfeffer Linaro’s Android Tech Lead about ST-Ericsson’s work with Linaro to improve development on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball development platform.
AllWinner Boxchip software engineers at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
3 engineers from http://www.allwinnertech.com talk about how they are using Linaro, what they are looking to get from Linaro, how they want to work with Linaro at the Linaro Connect Q2 2012 conference.
$55 AllWinner Boxchip A13 Tablet Factory Tour
Posted by – May 27, 2012
Watch this 7-minute Shenzhen factory tour, see how they are assembling the $55 (soon $49) Boxchip A13 7″ Capacitive tablet. This Shenzhen factory assembly line currently cranks out about 4000 such tablets in a days work. If you like this video, you should also watch my Shenzhen Speakers Factory video that I posted last month.
