PALO ALTO, Calif. — LinuxDevices.com today announced that after slightly more than two months of operation the new “Embedded Linux Portal” site has already logged more than 50,000 hits to its home page. Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices.com, said “This is another strong proof that Linux is here to stay and that its growth is not limited to stock offerings!”

“The embedded market represents… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com, the popular “Embedded Linux Portal”, today announced the second in its Embedded Linux Polls series. The new poll's topic is: “Please describe your embedded Linux application.” Users and prospective users of Linux in embedded applications are encouraged to participate in the poll, located at www.linuxdevices.com/polls. (more…)

Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices.com writes . . .

As you know, there is an ongoing effort to form a non-profit “Embedded Linux Consortium” (see discussion at www.linuxdevices.com/forum/) to serve as an industry trade association for the embedded and real time Linux market. (more…)

The LinuxDevices.com “Embedded Linux Portal” site is now operating on a new server. We were experiencing equipment “challenges” on the previous system and expect the new server to be considerably more responsive in its performance. We apologize if you experienced delays in accessing information over the last several weeks and sincerely hope you find the new server more satisfactory. (more…)

BERKELEY, Calif. — This spring UC Berkeley Extension will offer two short courses in programming for the “real” world: “Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems” and “32-Bit Real-Time Operating Systems with an Emphasis on Linux.” (more…)

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — (Company press release) — MontaVista Software Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded computers, today announces the hiring of Mark Orvek as director of engineering. Orvek comes to MontaVista with 18 years of experience at Hewlett-Packard Co. (more…)

Victor Yodaiken, of FSMLabs, will be chairing a session on Real Time & Embedded Linux at LinuxWorld in New York City on February 4th. The Session 83, entitled “Embedded and Realtime Linux” is part of “Track 3: Linux Kernel Internals” and takes place on Friday, February 4th, from 12:45pm to 2:00pm at the conference. (more…)

The ISA's Industrial Computing Online reports . . .

A movement to develop Linux-based programmable logic controller (PLC) technology is being launched by participants in an online e-mailing list. The host of the widely used Automation List, Control Technology Corp. and Control.com Inc., has agreed to provide the venue and discussion resources to carry on the project, informally being called the… (more…)

Dean Takahashi, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal , writes . . .

“Intel and Microsoft are straying further apart in the emerging market for non-PC 'appliances' that tap into the Internet.” (more…)

Stan Runyon, editor of EE Times, writes . . .

AUSTIN, Texas — The momentum behind Linux, the open-source operating system, is attracting the attention of the test, measurement and control world. (more…)

Ken Crater wrote . . .

Progress report from here (Control.com)…

1. There is a new domain name www.LinuxPLC.org, which we're now waiting to propagate to the toplevel domain name servers. This will point to the host site for the project. (more…)

John Lettice writes, in The Register . . .

“Intel's shiny new web appliances do indeed shun Windows in favour of Linux, but a closer examination of Intel's strategy makes it clear that this is the least of the headaches Chipzilla is presenting its 'ally' Microsoft with. (more…)

FSMLabs released the beta V3.0 version of RealTime Linux (RTLinux) for Linux kernel version 2.3 today. The new version is based on the current development Linux kernel and has been completely re-implemented both to optimize performance and to make ports to non-x86 architectures easier. (more…)

COSTA MESA, Calif. (company press release) — QLogic Corp., the market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters, and an innovator in SCSI connectivity solutions, today announced full, optimized support for the Linux operating system on its QLA2100 and QLA2200 series Fibre Channel host bus adapters as well as its Ultra3 and Ultra2 SCSI host bus adapters. (more…)

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX), a leading provider of comprehensive Linux-based solutions, today introduced SourceForge — a major Open Source initiative that now provides over 700 open source development projects with extensive hosting and communication resources. The services are available at no cost to open source developers. (more…)