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 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 »
udev is the device manager for the Linux 2.6 kernel series. It takes care of handling all the devices in /dev, such as adding/removing devices, and loading firmware when a driver asks for it. Compiling and installing udev is a straight-forward procedure, but you need to pay attention to it’s requirements. The README file inside… Read More: Cross-compiling udev »