Last year was a very busy year and I didn’t have much time for posting, but this year seems to be much better. In fact, the first good news is that the QBoxHD Team released the source code of almost all the software that runs in these boxes. If you want to see the sources… Read More: QBoxHD and QBoxHD-mini sources released with ‘SDK’ »
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 »
The installation of STLinux in a Debian-based distribution doesn’t seem to be straight-forward because STLinux uses RPM as package manager whereas Ubuntu uses Debian’s DPKG. These package managers are completely different and incompatible, but you can have both installed on the same host and therefore STLinux installed on Ubuntu. For installing SLinux2.3 you’ll have to… Read More: Installing STLinux2.3 in Ubuntu 9.04 »