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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.
Release 22.10
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
Release 22.05
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
Release 21.10
Highlights:
Bugfix release
- based on Buildroot 2021.2 LTS
- preliminary i.MX8 support
- enhancements & improvements
- bugfixes and security fixes
Upgrades software components
- buildroot 2021.02.1 --> 2021.02.6
- Linux 5.4.113-ge-21.04 --> 5.4.154-ge-21.10
- Qt 5.12.10 --> 5.12.11
- GLIBC 2.32-37 --> 2.32-50
- PHP 7.4.16 --> 7.4.24
Notable improvements & changes
- Bugfix when using legal-info
- bugfix for Qt grabWindow (for rotated displays)
- initial support for verified boot ("Secure Boot")
- added packages
--> tpmtools (tools and libraries to interface with TPM)
Release 21.04
Highlights:
Full Release
- based on Buildroot 2021.2 LTS
- preliminary i.MX8 support
- enhancements & improvements
- bugfixes and security fixes
upgrades software components
- buildroot 2020.02.7 --> 2021.02.1
- Linux 5.4.53-ge-20.08 --> 5.4.113-ge-21.04
- Qt 5.12.8 --> 5.12.10
- GLIBC 2.30-73 --> 2.32-37
- PHP 7.4.11 --> 7.4.16
Notable additional changes and improvements
- full unzip instead of busybox version
- added media processing extension for GStreamer
- added OpenSSL extension for PHP
- added TPM support for OpenVPN
- added packages
--> ge_ethmgr (Ginzinger embedded ethernet manager) &
--> ge_wlanmgr (Ginzinger embedded wi-fi manager)
Release 20.10
Various enhancements, upgrades and improvements were packed into the 20.10. release.
Release 20.04
Highlights of the 20.04 GELin update:
Improved process isolation
+ integrated multi-user support,
User Management tool "gelin_passwd".
State-of-the art Linux 5.4. LTS for all platforms
Accelerated video playback in Qt QML applications on i.MX6
Extensive support for
+ TPM (Trusted Platform Modules)
+ PHP (PHP-7.4.4)
Update to Qt 5.12
+ 5.12.7 for target and host,
+ Qt Creator 4.11.2 incl. documentation
about 230 updates of software components
numerous small improvements
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