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Category Archives: Hardware
Linaro Connect Q1.12 Full Video List Now Available
The Novacut crew had their cameras rolling at Linaro Connect Q1.12 which took place on 6-10 February at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, CA. Below is the full list of videos from the Linaro Connect Q1.12 event. Click on … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period March 7 to March 13.
Hello Linaro fans. Something big is happening in Linaro. And something LITTLE too. Behind the cute moniker “big.LITTLE” hides a chip architecture that may improve the user experience of mobile devices dramatically. Up to now the device manufacturers have had … Continue reading
Linaro Sweetens Cotton Candy’s Success
FXI Technologies, Inc. announced from Mobile World Congress earlier this week that it is now accepting pre-orders for its light weight, USB sized, any screen cloud computer—Cotton Candy. FXI Technologies announced the launch of cstick.com—the Cotton Candy developer site—in the … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Feb. 17 to Feb. 23
Hello Linaro fans. The 12.02 cycle contained both Linaro Connect and The two Linux Foundation conferences ABS and ELC. All three events were held in the same hotel in Redwood City just south of San Francisco. The Connect conference is … Continue reading
Dave Pigott and the LAVA Validation Team Head to the Cloud
Article contributed by Dave Pigott A while back, we–the LAVA Validation team– realised that our one little HP Quad core server with a paltry 32GB RAM and a mere 1TB of storage, was creaking at the seams trying to do … Continue reading
January 2012 CEO Report
There are three themes that run through our plans for 2012. These are in addition to continuing our work in consolidation and defragmentation of existing ARM open source code in the various relevant upstream projects, with most but not all … Continue reading
FXI’s Cotton Candy at CES Leverages Open Source Tools from Linaro for Rapid Development
FXI‘s Cotton Candy at CES is proof of how Linaro can help a system vendor rapidly develop a product that is running the latest Android ICS and Ubuntu. FXI said in it’s announcement it leveraged the Linaro for ARM open software and … Continue reading
Linaro offers accelerated builds of Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich
In a press release earlier today, Linaro announced the availability of builds of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) supporting accelerated graphics on two of its member’s low cost development boards: the Samsung Origen and ST-Ericsson Snowball boards. When asked about … Continue reading
big.LITTLE Technology – Two Usage Models
ARM announced its big.LITTLE technology on 19th October and Linaro were invited to participate in both the London and San Francisco launches. It is interesting technology, with two clusters of Cortex ARMv7 architecture cores (Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7) joined together via … Continue reading
LAVA@Home
I’m currently working on the flexible LAVA deployment blueprint. This blueprint is about untying our hands (both as developers and administrators) from having to provide Debian packages for our releases. This is especially important our major new dependency, celery, is not available … Continue reading