First impressions on the beta BeagleV - affordable RISC-V SBC
Published at May 6, 2021 · Maciej Pijanowski · 11 min read
BeagleV is the first affordable RISC-V SBC deisgned to run Linux. It is fully open-source with open-source software, open hardware design and RISC-V open architecture. This blog post presents the basic functionality of the first batch of the available beta samples released to the community....
Right to Repair - and why is it important?
Published at April 30, 2021 · Mike Banon · 4 min read
Let's observe the struggles of today's repairman, why a right to repair is important and how 3mdeb can help....
Categories: hardware miscellaneous
Yocto Project and its components as the Reference OS for Dasharo
Published at April 22, 2021 · Maciej Pijanowski · 4 min read
Let's dive into the most frequently asked questions regarding Dasharo products based on Yocto Project - this blog post will answer what is Yocto and what are the reasons for choosing such a solution...
Thoughts on OSFC 2020 – day 2 and 3
Published at April 14, 2021 · Kamila Banecka · 8 min read
Lets share some thoughts that evolved during the OSFC 2020 talks and send kudos to many people who made this conference happen....
Categories: app-dev firmware iot manufacturing miscellaneous os-dev security
The backdoor to your firmware 2
Published at March 25, 2021 · Anastazja Lapanova · 6 min read
Firmware vulnerabilities in the light of recent attacks as a backdoor of the firmware - part 2...
Categories: firmware
Creating ports for BSD distributions
Published at March 15, 2021 · Norbert Kamiński · Piotr Konkol · 8 min read
In this blog post, we will present how to build packages for FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Also, we will show you how to create CI for FreeBSD distribution with the use of GitHub action....
Categories: firmware
Published at March 12, 2021 · Anastazja Lapanova · 5 min read
Firmware vulnerabilities in the light of recent attacks as a backdoor of the firmware...
Categories: firmware
OSF vPub (vBeer) - what a fun event!
Published at February 23, 2021 · Mike Banon · 2 min read
We've just had our first OSF vPub gathering, with lots of fun & really interesting talk about the open-source firmware/hardware with 50 masters from all over the world!...
Categories: firmware miscellaneous
Published at February 18, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Kamila Banecka · 5 min read
Pros and cons of automated testing and the process of performing transparent validation....
Porting fwupd to the BSD distributions - How to compile fwupd on FreeBSD
Published at February 16, 2021 · Norbert Kamiński · 14 min read
The security of the whole system is not determined only by the software it runs, but also the firmware. We want to provide easy firmware update method to BSD distributions....
Categories: firmware
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