Armbian support is here!

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Several BeagleBoards are now supported under the Armbian build system and community! Armbian is a lightweight Linux distribution and build system optimized for ARM-based single-board computers (SBCs).  Adopting Armbian will help standardize the user experience and software release schedule for all boards while simultaneously being able to provide options for different distros (various Debian and […]

This Week in Beagle ROUND-UP: November/December ’24

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“This Week in Beagle” is a weekly blog series by BeagleBoard.org’s own Ayush Singh that highlights significant contributions he and others are making in the open-source community. In November/December, Ayush and other community members teamed up on advances in: November 11th: Rust Imager Upgrades and Devicetree Nexus Node Schemas and Dynamic Aliasing Novembert 18th: Devicetree […]

Open Source and Diversity Go Hand-in-Hand

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Looking ahead to International Women in Engineering Day and back on International Women’s Day, I’ve been reflecting on our industry’s amazing accomplishments and what we can do to foster even greater success. Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD; Limor Fried, the founder of Adafruit Industries; and Calista Redmond, CEO of the RISC-V Foundation after years in […]

BeagleBoard now has an official Discord chat group

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Please join us on Discord! I personally love IRC due to its open nature and you will continue to find me there. I use the IRCCloud client to give me back history and an app-based experience. It works for me. Anyway, I’ve been very reluctant to feature Discord, a closed-source chat tool, but the community […]

Call for topics for open-source embedded systems education projects

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It’s that time again, time to start gathering project ideas and possible mentors for Google Summer of Code. This year, you can be a student even if you aren’t enrolled in school! That’s got me thinking about the key areas we need to help advance education around open source embedded systems. One of the early […]