Author Archives: paguilar

Compiling and running Dropbear: a thin Secure Shell server

Dropbear is a thin Secure Shell 2 (SSH 2) server and client. It is a good alternative to OpenSSH when you have storage and memory restrictions, specially in embedded systems. Cross-compiling and running Dropbear in an embedded system is not a difficult task, but the documentation is not very clear for everybody. You can start… Read More: Compiling and running Dropbear: a thin Secure Shell server »

The OpenSource Team Ducktales Project releases all their sources

[Update 21/12/2009: The git repository in the link will remain alive and not as stated.] After more than two years that this project began under the The Ducktales Team (TDT) name, it now changes its name to The OpenSource Team Ducktales Project and releases all the sources along with the necessary infrastructure for creating images.… Read More: The OpenSource Team Ducktales Project releases all their sources »

The QBoxHD team releases the source code of U-Boot

The QBoxHD uses two bootloaders. The first-stage bootloader is read-only, it cannot be rewritten and it’s used basically for disaster recovery. The second-stage bootloader does the real job because it loads the kernel and the initramfs according to the environment variables that you can modify. With this configuration, the QBoxHD gives you the freedom to… Read More: The QBoxHD team releases the source code of U-Boot »