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GELin

Ginzinger's embedded Linux operating system platform for customized, sophisticated electronic devices simplifies development, maintenance and support of embedded systems. To the details of the Ginzinger distribution & all releases

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For more than ten years, Ginzinger has relied on Linux as an operating system platform for customized, sophisticated electronic devices. The use of a powerful operating system simplifies development, maintenance and support of embedded systems.

GELin (Ginzinger Embedded Linux) comes with a comprehensive set of verified and qualified tools, libraries, frameworks, drivers and features that make it easy to develop robust, durable embedded devices. All components are optimized for the i.MX family of processor platforms offered by Ginzinger, as well as for resource consumption and runtime, and are of course intensively tested.

Twice a year, Ginzinger provides extensions for GELin.

Highlights of the release:

  •     based on Buildroot 2024.02.2 LTS
  •     Qt 5.15.10 / Qt Creator 8
  •     ge_update 7.16
  •     Added support for printing
  •     Bug fixes for cmake and x11vnc
  •     Bug fixes and security fixes
  •     Software component upgrades
  •     Removed: Qt5Webengine for 32bit platforms
  •     Supported host systems: Debian 11 and 12, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04
  •     Buildroot 2023.2 --> 2023.2.5 security, bug fixes and features
  •     Added support for MariaDB
  •     added audio toolkit "sox
  •     Added audio packages 
  •     added firmware package to support SW8987 WiFi devices

Datasheet and technical details are available here: www.ginzinger.com/de/wissen-events/techtalk/gelin-die-ginzinger-embedded-linux-distribution

Highlights of the feature release:

  •     based on Buildroot 2023.2 LTS
  •     Qt 5.15 / Qt Creator 8
  •     various enhancements and improvements
  •     bugfixes and security fixes
  •     software component upgrades
  •     various changes for existing GELin Qt projects with GESys
  •     notes on security holes of the old Chromium version of the Qt5 webengine
  •     Ubuntu 23.04
        - adaptation of GELin for the no longer supported tftpd version Ubuntu 23.04

Maintenance Release Highlights:

  •      Based on Buildroot 2022.2 LTS
  •     - Software components upgrade from 2022.02.1 to 2022.02.6
  •     Qt 5.15/Qt Creator 7
  •     Enhancements/improvements
  •     - Security Patches
  •     - Add jq, libwebsockets
  •     - Support for Ge_update for imx8 (requires a new kernel)
  •     various bugfixes and security fixes
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Highlights:

        Full Release
    - Based on Buildroot 2022.2 LTS
    - i.MX8 support
    - Qt 5.15/Qt Creator 7
    - Enhancements/improvements
    - Bug fixes and security fixes
    - Software component upgrades
        AI support
    - Tensorflow Lite runtime (version 2.8.0)
    - Support for integration with C++ and Python projects
    - NPU acceleration (i.MX8 MP only)
    - Project templates and packages available for quick start and easy integration
        Python support
    - Version 3.10.2
    - including various packages like Numpy, Pandas, Scipy

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Infofolder-developments with GELin
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