The “canD” is a very small, stylish, easy-to-install Linux-based TV set-top box designed to provide convenient Internet access to beginners and non-computer users. The new consumer Internet appliance is part of a wave of Asian-manufactured Linux-based consumer products that will begin hitting retail shelves this year. (more…)

In his guest editorial about the RTLinux patent, Jerry Epplin makes the point that mixing a patent with GPL turns GPL into something that seems contrary to the intent of the creators of the GPL license. (more…)

Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — Hewlett-Packard Company today introduced HP MicrochaiVM, the micro edition of HP ChaiVM, a Java application environment for intelligent appliances. MicrochaiVM was developed for use in extremely resource-constrained devices such as cell phones, pagers, personal digital assistants and point-of-sale terminals. (more…)

In his guest editorial about the RTLinux patent, Jerry Epplin makes the point that mixing a patent with GPL turns GPL into something that seems contrary to the intent of the creators of the GPL license. (more…)

Foreword: In this guest editorial, Jerry Epplin takes a look at the recently unveiled RTLinux patent, including a summary of what the patent says, the implications of the patent to the GPL status of RTLinux, and some of the issues and concerns that may arise when developing applications that incorporate RTLinux. (more…)

In this guest editorial, Jerry Epplin takes a look at the recently unveiled RTLinux patent, including a summary of what the patent says, the implications of the patent to the GPL status of RTLinux, and some of the issues and concerns that may arise when developing applications that incorporate RTLinux. Epplin writes . . . (more…)

This is the slide presentation given by LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum at the recent Real-Time and Embedded Systems Forum held on February 6, 2001 in San Jose, CA. Topics discussed include . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum takes his customary “walk on the embedded side” of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo held last week in New York City. In this article, Lehrbaum describes what he observed and gives his impressions of current trends in Embedded Linux — the next big frontier for Linux . . . (more…)

CNET's Todd Volz describes some of the more interesting exhibits he saw at last week's LinuxWorld Expo in New York City. Volz writes . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum takes his customary “walk on the embedded side” of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo held last week in New York City. In this article, Lehrbaum describes what he observed and gives his impressions of current trends in Embedded Linux — the next big frontier for Linux . . . (more…)

In a column that will warm the hearts of open source partisans and leave everyone contemplating the impending end of the software market as we know it, ZDNet's Evan Leibovitch sketches in broad strokes the patterns of history that have brought us here, to the eve of “the Redmond Giant's” fall. Leibovitch writes . . . (more…)

Rebecca Buckman, of the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, reports that Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is preparing to announce an alliance with several semiconductor makers that will allow them to develop customized chips for devices running embedded versions of Microsoft's operating systems. Buckman writes . . . (more…)

Carlisle, MA — (press release excerpt) — Sleepycat Software Inc. today released its latest version of the award-winning open source embedded database Berkeley DB. The release includes a new port to the QNX realtime platform, as well as to all major UNIX, Linux, and Windows systems. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced immediate availability of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, (J2ME) Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Foundation profile for Linux. Together, these components of the J2ME form a platform for networked devices in the home, auto and factory floor. (more…)

ZDNet UK's Will Knight reports that Bluetooth — the short-range wireless technology designed to replace cables — is just beginning to trickle onto the market in Europe, but at the LinuxWorld show in New York a number of vendors were already showing off new wireless hardware running Linux. Knight writes . . . (more…)