We’re pleased to announce that The Good Penguin has recently been awarded funding from Innovate UK to establish and operate a CHERI tools and software hub. What is CHERI? CHERI, or Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, is an open, formally proven set of microprocessor architectural extensions that add strong, fine-grained memory-safety guarantees to existing Instruction …
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Embedded Linux Conference 2025
Earlier this year, the Embedded Linux Conference took place in Amsterdam as part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe. As is tradition, we sent most of our team – to allow us to share and absorb knowledge, as well as to network with our counterparts in the ecosystem. Read on to find read …
Embedded Recipes 2025
Embedded Recipes is a conference held in Nice, France which focuses on open-source embedded systems. It’s organisers accurately describe the conference as “talks, workshops, discussions, food, friends and the beach”. The Good Penguin attended (and sponsored) the event and in this blog post we’ll share our highlights. The CRA and what it means for us …
The Good Penguin Sponsors Embedded Recipes 2025
We are proud and excited to be sponsoring the Embedded Recipes conference, for the first time, this year. Embedded Recipes is a small conference with an exclusive and community feel which focuses on open-source embedded systems. Following in the footsteps of it’s older cousin Kernel Recipes, the 6th edition of this conference will host 15 …
FOSDEM 2025
FOSDEM 2025, one of the largest open-source software conferences in the world, took place in Brussels, Belgium in February this year. The Good Penguin attended and in this blog post we will share some of our highlights. Exploring Open Source Dual A/B Update Solutions for Embedded Linux – Leon Anavi At The Good Penguin we …
Xmas Charity Fundraiser 2024
This Xmas The Good Penguin is raising money for Alzheimer’s Society, a charity that aims to end the devastation cause by dementia by giving vital support to those who need it, funding research and by campaigning for change. Dementia, which can be caused by many diseases including Alzheimer’s, describes a set of symptoms that can …
Embedded Linux Conference 2024 Europe
Open Source Summit Europe 2024 happened in mid September In Vienna and incorporated the Embedded Linux Conference. The Good Penguin sent a group over to participate to both network and also to keep up to date on what new developments are happening, not just in the Embedded Linux space but also the broader Linux and …
The Good Penguin opens an Office in Newport, Wales
The Good Penguin is and has always been a fully-remote business with our employees based all across the UK. Being fully-remote allows us to hire the best engineers wherever they may be found – a significant benefit given the rare to find skills that are required for the specialist work we do. However, as our …
The Good Penguin speaks at the Embedded Open Source Summit 2024 in Seattle
Earlier this year, our founder Andrew Murray presented a talk at the Embedded Open Source Summit 2024 in Seattle. The talk was about SD cards, their performance and reliability. The synopsis of the talk follows: “The underlying storage of an SD card is NAND flash, which is inherently unreliable, has a limited number of program/erase …
Linaro Connect 2024: Madrid
This year’s Linaro Connect event took place in Spain’s capital, the city of Madrid in May and several members of The Good Penguin attended the event for the conference aspects of the gathering. This event was different than your usual open source conference as Linaro Connect is also a vessel for Linaro employee’s to have …