LinuxLink Radio by TimeSys

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LinuxLink Radio is a bi-weekly podcast geared towards developers of embedded Linux. Hosts Gene Sally and Maciej Halasz discuss a wide range of embedded Linux topics. This podcast features commentary on common issues, guest interviews, featured LinuxLink projects, embedded Linux news and email from our listeners. Check this page for additional commentary, materials and links discussed in each show.

For this topic, Maciej invited Timesys engineers, Justin and Scott, to participate. Both engineers, having enjoyed using Nokia's software on the Neo phone and having experience with Qt/Embedded for Linux at Timesys, share their insight into the recently released graphics toolkit. The trio spends time introducing historical perspective on Qt and unsuccessfully tries to figure out the long list of names the package has had over the years. Scott talks about other open source graphics frameworks, such as GTK+ and Glade, and Justin introduces concepts around QtCreator.

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Episode 41: For this episode, Maciej invited two Timesys engineers, Daniel and Jason (both of whom have been working with the Timesys desktop build system and a number of open source ones, including buildroot and LTIB), to participate. After introducing Timesys' approach to building complete Linux platform, the trio talks …
Episode 40: In this episode Maciej and Daniel, one of Timesys Linux gurus, talk about what's new in the 2.6.28 Linux kernel. The conversation focuses on several aspects of the 2.6.28 kernel that are particularly relevant to an embedded Linux engineer. The pair seems to enjoy in particular talking about …
Episode 39: In this episode, our hosts talk about what's new in the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. Various new features are covered in detail, including support for UBIFS. The hosts discuss the benefits of UBIFS for developers and how UBIFS compares to JFFS2. Other topics touched on in this episode include …
Episode 38: In this episode, Maciej and Gene interview Mike Erickson of Logic, a leading board design and manufacturing company, and discuss weighty topics such as today's hottest processors, Linux acceptance, Pittsburgh's Mt. Washington incline, minimizing boot time and if the consultant who claimed he was lead through a government …
Episode 37: In this episode, Maciej and Gene talk about what free software means in practice, both for companies that create free software and those who use it as part of their business. The pair gets upset when some vendors follow the letter but not the spirit of free software …
Episode 36: Maciej and Gene talk about what "Free Software" means and the rights and obligations of Free Software users. The pair talk about what's different about GPL3, tivoization, and the Lesser GPL among other topics.
Episode 35: After a bit of a break, Gene and Maciej talk about 2.6.26 from an embedded developer's perspective. The pair also discuss the ins and outs of using MPatrol: how it works, what it's good for, and some of its more nifty features.
Episode 34: Maciej and Gene talk about what new in the 2.6.25 version of the kernel that's relevant to embedded developers, like CANBUS (thanks Volkswagen) and real time features that all allocation of processor time by process group. Gene also talks about debugfs and how engineers can use this light-weight …
Episode 33: Last month, TimeSys was at the ESC West show and brought along the LinuxLink radio gear. In this episode, Maciej and Gene interview Jeff Martin about the technology behind his company's product, the Propeller chip. What interested Maciej and Gene was the interruptless nature of the Propeller chip's …
Episode 32: Gene and reluctant guest host Jeremiah Lott talk about how to do basic system profiling when you're low on resources. By using some basic library functions, coding in an interrupt handler and using the proc filesystem, you can get a good look at how your application is using …
Episode 31: Review of Embedded World Conference in Nurnberg:
Episode 30: Profiling Tools - Hardware Efficiency:
Episode 29: Fahd Abidi Interview -- Hardware Debuggers:
Episode 28: Open Source Updates and Intro to Inter-Process Communication:
Episode 27: Porting Your Kernel to a New Device - Part 3:
Episode 26: Network Setup for an Embedded System:
Episode 25: Porting Your Kernel to a New Device - Part 2:
Episode 24: Porting Your Kernel to a New Device - Part 1:
Episode 23: Review of the CELF Embedded Linux Conference in Austria: