FreeIO.org has released the complete design files for the Toast ColdFire Controller Board, under the GNU General Public License. This Toast board is based on a Motorola MCF5307 ColdFire processor, has dual onboard Ethernet NICs, and runs the uClinux version of Embedded Linux. (more…)

Milpitas, CA — (press release excerpt) — Stream Machine and Sigma Designs today announced a complete Personal Video Recorder (PVR) reference design. Called “Harmony”, the new reference design is intended to enable manufacturers to inexpensively add PVR functionality to their advanced set-top box products that address the rapidly-growing convergence marketplace. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. announced today the availability of its GNUPro embedded toolset and related services for the Intel IQ80310 Development Kit, the evaluation board for the Intel IOP310 I/O processor chipset. Embedded developers can now take advantage of the popular Red Hat GNUPro tools in conjunction with the Intel IQ80310 Evaluation Platform. (more…)

Edmonton, Alberta — (press release excerpt) — Alta Terra Ventures Corp. today announced an agreement to purchase Univolve, a private Alberta-based software company whose major thrust is reactive keyboard and compression technology with text-prediction software that is built on a Linux platform. (more…)

By Graeme Wearden of ZDNet UK . . .

Fujitsu is poised to release technical details on Tuesday of a humanoid robot that can walk on its own two legs. The electronics giant is releasing details of the internal architecture of the Hoap-1 to help programmers write their own code (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — Insignia Solutions announced today the introduction of Jeode PDA Edition, an implementation of the company's industry-leading Java virtual machine environment that is tailored for the limited memory resources and browsing requirements of Pocket PCs, PDAs, and related handheld devices. (more…)

Microsoft's anti-GPL offensive this summer has sparked renewed speculation about whether the GPL is “enforceable.” This particular example of “FUD” (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is always a little amusing to me. I'm the only lawyer on earth who can say this, I suppose, but it makes me wonder what everyone's wondering about: Enforcing the (more…)

[Updated 10:50pm PDT] Both FSMLabs and the Free Software Foundation have now issued press releases announcing the full resolution of the RTLinux license dispute. Here they are . . . (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc. announced an agreement with Philips Speech Processing to port Philips' VoCon continuous-speech recognizer for embedded systems to Alchemy's family of microprocessors. This integration will allow OEMs to integrate voice capabilities into products being developed with Alchemy's family of MIPS32 ISA compatible processors. (more…)

In this article at NewsForge.com, Grant Gross reports that Victor Yodaiken, CEO of the company that makes RTLinux, believes the Free Software Foundation's accusation that his company is violating the GNU General Public License with its patent of RTLinux may be a misunderstanding. Gross writes . . . (more…)

London, Ontario — (press release excerpt) — Microtronix is now shipping the Linux Development Kit (LDK) for the Altera royalty-free soft-core Nios Processor. Earlier this year, Microtronix announced a port of uClinux to the Nios processor; this LDK builds on that effort, providing a full Nios development environment for designing embedded Linux based devices. (more…)

[Updated 3:30pm PDT] According to Eben Moglen, general counsel of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), “the FSF and FSMLabs have reached an agreement in principal on a fully GPL compatible license for RTLinux.” The revised license is expected to be published by FSMLabs within the next one to two days. (more…)

eWEEK's Peter Galli reports on the recent declaration by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) which charges that FSMLabs open RTLinux license violates the terms of the GPL. Galli writes . . . (more…)

Writing at ComputorEdge Online, Mathew W. Beale writes about the increasing popularity of Linux as an embedded operating system within next generation TV set-top boxes. Beale writes . . . (more…)

Linux is a rich programming environment, all the more so due to its adoption of the entire GNU tool set. In this article at Linux.com, Konstantin Klyagin takes a detailed but quick look at the complete GNU environment for beginning or intermediate programmers on Linux. It's a great way to get up to speed on what everything does in your system. (more…)