Drew Moseley From Toradex

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In this episode, we had a great discussion with Drew about:

• Drew’s career – many interesting companies
• Toradex
  • manufacturers SOMs (System-on-Module)
  • started out providing WinCE solutions
• Torizon
  • opinionated stack
  • fully integration solution
  • container runtime – allows developers to deploy applications without knowing much about Linux
  • customize OS without doing Yocto builds
• Visual Studio Code plugin
  • simplifies management of Docker images, containers, cross compilation, remote debugging, etc.
• Torizon device side software is OSS
• SW update system
  • many options: Mendor, RAUC, SWUpdate, OSTree
  • Toradex uses OSTree
    • OSTree is file based for delta updates, where RAUC and SWUpdate are block based.
    • single partition
    • Git-like store where changes can be rolled back, etc.
    • read-only rootfs
  • Uptane is provides protection against attackers
• Greenboot – used to verify system is functioning properly
• Toradex’s upstream first policy
• Challenges in developing with Embedded Linux
  • drinking from the OSS firehose
  • understanding all the components
  • realistic expectations about how long this stuff takes to develop
  • regulations
• The future
  • immutable distros

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