Yes, we’re verbifying a noun here, but hope that the term is meaningful. We’ve been shipping binary images of Ubuntu for a while now, but haven’t really discussed the differences in the boot layout and will remedy that in this…
Wifi Hotspot on i.MX6 boards (through cellular or ethernet)
Our i.MX6 Nitrogen6x and especially Nitrogen6_Max boards have great connectivity options and can be useful in server applications as well as the more typical client uses. In this post, we’ll describe how to use the built-in WiFi adapter to create a…
Cellular modems on i.MX6 boards under Ubuntu
We’ve had lots of customers ask about cellular modem support on our i.MX6 boards, and in the past, have mostly just shrugged. Since most cell modems are USB or PCIe devices, configuration is a software task, and mostly done in userspace….
Ubuntu Trusty December 2014 release
It’s the middle of December and time for an updated image with Ubuntu 14.04 (code name Trusty) for our i.MX6 boards. It’s also time that we pushed a console-only image for those using our boards in applications that don’t require…
Ubuntu Trusty for i.MX6 boards – September 2014
We’ve just uploaded a new image of Ubuntu Trusty for our i.MX6 boards that contains some nice new features that deserve some explanation. Since the the initial release contains proper packaging, you could upgrade using sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get…
Trusty Ubuntu for i.MX6 boards
Since our Linaro Raring release in December of last year, we’ve been publicly quiet about updated images, but working hard in the background to make the next release(s) more full-featured and more maintainable. As the first public release of these…
Rapping up Raring
To tie a string around our post about the Linaro Raring images and the post showing how to accelerate video, we’ve put together an image based on Linaro latest Raring ALIP that contains GPU acceleration and the GStreamer binaries for…
Linaro Raring images with 4.1.0 kernels for i.MX6
We’ve just uploaded a handful of new images to our cloud storage that combine the latest Linaro builds with our latest kernel (3.0.35_4.1.0). We did this for a few reasons: The kernel used in previous Linaro images were woefully out…
Freescale Ubuntu Image with 4.0.0 kernel
The new image combines the Freescale Oneiric image with our 4.0.0 kernel build + modules and bootscripts. For windows users we have an SD card image that can be used with a tool created by Alex Page. See here for…
