(press release) — OpenHardware.net announces availability of design data for a SIMM-sized 10BaseT Ethernet board. The tiny Ethernet interface board is meant to be used with the EZ328SIMM, a SIMM-sized single-board computer that contains a Motorola MC68EZ328 CPU and is supported by the current uClinux embedded Linux distribution. (more…)

Embedded Linux product development may have just gotten easier, thanks to Embedded Planet's “Linux Planet 1.2” application development platform. The system contains most of the computer functions usually required for embedded designs, including operating system software, and is targeted to developers planning to use embedded Linux along with Motorola's MPC823e PowerPC processor. (more…)

At LinuxWorld earlier this week, [email protected] Partner's Steven Vaughan-Nichols caught up with Red Hat's founder and chairman, Bob Young. Young shared some of his predictions about the future of the open source software phenomenon. Vaughan-Nichols writes . . . (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Motorola Computer Group and Red Hat announced a collaboration to help make Linux ready for telecom applications designed to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Under terms of the agreement, Motorola will package and market Red Hat's Linux operating system with Motorola's Advanced High-Availability Software for Linux (HA-Linux) offering, which will be shipped with… (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Computer I/O Corporation has announced Easy I/O DirectWare, a unique embedded software and services “middleware solution” targeting the communications industry. The software enables Microsoft Windows clients to transparently communicate with Linux-based embedded data acquisition servers, without concern for operating system, network compatibility, or protocols. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — LynuxWorks, Inc. today announced the release of BlueCat Linux version 3.0, which adds features and expands support of embedded microprocessor architectures. BlueCat Linux now supports the ARM (including the Thumb extensions), StrongARM, and Hitachi SuperH microprocessor architectures. (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release) — The Embedded Linux Consortium today announced the results of the annual election of officers based on nominations and voting conducted by the recently-seated Board of Directors. The officers, their ELC functions and company affiliations are:

• Dr. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release) — TimeSys Corp. announced several enhancements to its tools and to platform support for the TimeSys Linux/RT operating system distribution. Additions include TimeSys' TimeTrace and TimeWiz real-time simulation tools, support for several added embedded board platforms, support for multi-processor system architectures, and the TimeWarp integrated development environment (IDE). (more…)

Motorola Computer Group introduced the newest member of its MBX family of EBX form-factor single-board computers (SBCs) at LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, CA this week. The MBX2000 — a high-performance, low power, and compact SBC — complies with the Ampro/Motorola EBX form-factor standard for embedded computer boards. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release) — Lineo today announced the beta for Embedix RealTime, a real-time development environment of Linux. Embedix RealTime is used for mission-critical applications requiring guaranteed response time in the telecom, military simulation, and industrial control markets. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release) — Lineo today announced plans to provide Windows NT and Windows 2000 developers with an integrated Embedix SDK and VMWARE tool kit that allows developers to work in their familiar Windows environment while creating Linux software for embedded devices. The Embedix V-kit provides Windows-hosted developers with a virtual Linux environment that provides them all of the… (more…)

Roberta Holland, writing for eWEEK, reports on a speech by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of technology and strategy, at the company's Solutions 2000 conference held this week in Las Vegas, NV. Wladawsky-Berger's statements shed some strategic light on the steadily increasing swirl of Linux activity that appears to be engulfing “big Blue” these days. (more…)

In spite of Red Hat's perceived image as “the Linux company,” the company continues to promote eCos as a light weight and highly configurable alternative to Linux, for deeply embedded applications. Red Hat's ongoing eCos commitment surfaced yesterday in the form of a joint announcement between Red Hat and CrosStor Software. (more…)

Charles Babcock, of [email protected] Week, provides a detailed on yesterday's LinuxWorld press conference by the newly formed Gnome Foundation, whose members include Helix Code, Sun, HP, Eazel, IBM, VA Linux Systems, Red Hat, TurboLinux, Gnumatic, Henzai, the Free Software Foundation, and the Object Management Group. Babcock writes . . . (more…)

LinuxWorld — Cirrus Logic has revealed several interesting new design wins for its Maverick processors running Embedded Linux in Internet products such as the futuristic IBM Internet appliance wrist watch prototype, S3's Diamond Rio Receiver, and PhatNoise's PhatBox car audio system. (more…)