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Khem and Cliff
Quote for the week
Competency is bigger than "can they do it". Competency is "how they do it." Can is clean and binary, how is messy and analog. -- Jason Fried
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- How to find the right people?
- How to accelerate the rate of development?
- How to be more efficient?
- How will AI impact me?
- How do we adapt to change?
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Yoe 2024.02 release 🚀
February release of Yoe is available. As is usual with rolling release, useful features and fixes keep rolling in along with important security fixes implicitly fixed in newer components. This release is coming a month or so before next yocto LTS release scheduled for End of April, this release therefore has major components upgrades e.g. glibc 2.39, binutils 2.42, OpenSSH 9.6p1, OpenSSL 3.2.1, mesa 24.x linux yocto 6.6.18 kernel,
RISCV package tests ( ptests ) images have received quite a bit of fixes where they are now runnable on QEMU machines.
meta-elm has been removed from yoe distro default layer setup, it was needed
for simpleIOT frontend, which is now pre-packaged into simpleIOT build into
yocto.
meta-clang has received Yocto Compatible Certification.
Per-recipe ptest support which allows ptest enabled recipes to build and run a minimal image with just the package and its ptests, has been added for few more meta-openembedded layers e.g. meta-networking, meta-multimedia, meta-filesystems. This should allow runtime tests to be performed in CI runs and thereby improve the recipe quality and maintain it over development in future.
master branches are in soft-freeze status in preparation for Yocto 5 LTS release and stabilizing for it, the next release 2024.03 will contain less amount of major changes.
Think Horses, not Zebras (Part 2)
There is a popular quote in medical circles:
When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras. — Dr. Theodore Woodward
I recently posted several debugging experiences where it was beneficial to examine simple scenarios before complex ones. Here are a few more …
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