Getting Started
Development Boards
- T3-GEM-O1
Operating System
Image Writer
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
It is an English word meaning “precious stone”. The product family is named Gemstone, and each product is given the name of a precious stone.
It is the name of the first development board (product code: T3-GEM-O1), referring to a sharp, glass-like stone formed from cooled volcanic lava. It was used in prehistoric times for making cutting and piercing tools.
All software and hardware projects are developed by volunteer teams and the community within the T3 Foundation.
Software Development Kit. It refers to the tool that compiles and creates all core software and images for Gemstone development boards.
Operating systems like Debian or Ubuntu use Linux as their kernel/core but contain different software, versions, packages, or package installation methods. Each operating system like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Pardus is called a Distro/Distribution.
It is the website from which software is downloaded when you run commands like sudo apt install in Linux.
In Linux, these are .dts/.dtb files that contain information about which peripheral devices and hardware on the board are used by ARM architecture processors, through which data bus, and all related settings. When the kernel core starts, it reads this file to determine how to access each hardware component and which driver to load.