We’re happy to release our Ubuntu Bionic image for Nitrogen8M_Mini board. Since this board supports only Wayland graphical backend, the system is simpler than earlier systems with i.MX6, similar to i.MX8M system. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor…
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS for Nitrogen8M_Mini board – March 2019 (kernel 4.9.x)
We’re happy to release our Ubuntu Bionic image for Nitrogen8M_Mini board. Since this board supports only Wayland graphical backend, the system is simpler than earlier systems with i.MX6, similar to i.MX8M system. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor in…
Nitrogen8M – Android and Qt Demo
The latest addition to our Nitrogen family, the Nitrogen8M, based on the NXP i.MX8MQ processor, will start shipping soon so it is time to show some demos of it. The Setup For this demo, we simply use: A Nitrogen8M platform…
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS for i.MX6/7 boards – June 2018 (kernel 4.9.x)
In the last month Canonical released a new LTS version of Ubuntu named Bionic. We are glad to offer new images of Ubuntu Bionic for i.MX6 and i.MX7 Nitrogen boards with the current 4.9.x_1.0.0 kernel. Now we changed to XFCE4…
Debian Stretch 9.2 for i.MX6/7 boards – October 2017 (kernel 4.1.15/4.9.x)
As it happens every other year, Debian released a new version of its distribution named Stretch. We are glad to offer new images for i.MX6/7 boards with the current 4.1.15 kernel. As earlier, we used XFCE4 desktop since it offers…
Buildroot 2017.08 for i.MX platforms
Buildroot 2017.08 has just been released and we’re glad to provide new images for it. This release brings some new features that will be discussed in this blog post as well as some news of our own. For the impatient…
Debian Jessie 8.6 for i.MX6/7 boards – December 2016 (kernel 4.1.15)
For those of you who prefer Debian over Ubuntu, we’re glad to offer an updated Debian Jessie with the newest 4.1.15-2.0.0 kernel . The same good old XFCE4 was used since it offers the best trade-off speed/size for Debian…
Pengutronix Etnaviv demo on Nitrogen6x
Boundary Devices was attending the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE) 2016 in Berlin and was pleased to discover a very nice Etnaviv demo from Pengutronix running on the Nitrogen6x. What’s Etnaviv? Etnaviv is an open-source project that provides a user-space graphics and…
Visit us at Qt World Summit Oct 18-20th to see our i.MX6 and i.MX7 Products
Boundary Devices is proud to be a sponsor of the 2016 Qt World Summit in San Francisco, CA from October 18 to October 20. For customers considering a new embedded project with the NXP i.MX family of processors, Qt…
Ubuntu Xenial for i.MX6/7 boards – August 2016 (kernel 4.1.15)
At last the new Long Term Support Ubuntu has arrived. It’s full name Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04 LTS, it will be supported for 5 years by Canonical (till April 2021). This time we created a MATE desktop, not an…
