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We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the Azure IoT team at Microsoft for reference integration of Mender, an end-to-end open source OTA software update manager for IoT products. Microsoft Azure IoT is a secure, open and scalable cloud platform to connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets.

In developing today’s Internet of Things (IoT) products, support for both analyt...

In today’s connected embedded device market, driven by the Internet of things (IoT), a large share of devices in development are based on Linux of one form or another. When planning a system design for beyond the prototyping phase, things get a little more complex. On this recently published article on opensource.com, Mender’s Drew Moseley covers mechanisms to consider when developing and mainta...

On June 20th, we will hold a joint webinar with UP Squared, UP product family from AAEON. Up Squared is the world’s fastest x86 pro maker board based on the latest Intel platform Apollo Lake.

Come join us to learn how Mender is now available on UP Squared to do secure and robust over-the-air software updates out-of-the-box.

Register here.

In embedded Linux development, there are two approaches when it comes to what operating system to run on your device. Either build your own distribution (with tools such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded-Core, Buildroot etc.) or you use a binary distribution where Debian and derivatives are common.

It is common to start out with a binary distribution. This is a natural approach as this is a familiar enviro...

Mender's Drew Moseley wrote an article last year that we think is worth highlighting again: Four approaches to build embedded Linux systems, with the advantages and disadvantages of each highlighted. You can read the full article here at Opensource.com.