Linuxgram's Maureen O'Gara offers additional insight into this week's Lineo layoff in this article . . .

“. . . Lineo has cut staff. This time roughly 45%, reducing it to 75 people. The terminations were made Monday.” (more…)

Version 0.9.9 of uClibc has been announced by Erik Andersen . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.10. This release adds pthreads support (including pthreads support for mmu-less systems!). Additionally, thanks to Manuel Novoa III, we now have a completely new stdio library, which is small, standards compliant, supports pthreads,… (more…)

In this whitepaper on Linux Scheduler Latency, Clark Williams of Red Hat Inc. compares the performance of two popular ways to improve kernel Linux preemption latency — the preemption patch pioneered by MontaVista and the low-latency patch pioneered by Ingo Molnar — and discovers that the best approach might be a combination of both. Williams writes . . . (more…)

With various Linux-related news originating from Sun over the past few weeks, the company has posted a comprehensive overview of their open source and Linux strategy . . . (more…)

Citing “the impact of the economic downturn that has prevailed since March”, Lineo reduced its headcount again this week and continued the process begun last Fall of narrowing its focus to three key target markets. (more…)

Jacqueline Emigh provides an update and overview regarding the Eclipse project, and previews the enhanced Eclipse 2.0 slated for release in May in this story at LinuxPlanet. Emigh writes . . . (more…)

Writing at ZDNet UK, Matt Loney reports on the anticpated April launch of the Linux-powered Sharp Zaurus, citing the retail price as a 'sticking point'. Loney writes . . . (more…)

In this whitepaper on Linux Scheduler Latency, Clark Williams of Red Hat Inc. compares the performance of two popular ways to improve kernel Linux preemption latency — the preemption patch pioneered by MontaVista and the low-latency patch pioneered by Ingo Molnar — and discovers that the best approach might be a combination of both. (more…)

In this interview at IBM's developerWorks website, Linux Magazine editor Robert McMillan conducts a Q&A with with Marcelo Tosatti, maintainer of the 2.4 Linux kernel. McMillan writes . . . (more…)

Addison Wesley Professional has released a new technical book on Embedded Linux entitled Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing. From the book's back cover . . .

Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing — by Dr. Craig Hollabaugh — is one of the first books available that teaches you development and implementation of interfacing applications on an… (more…)

KDE.org has announced Qt support for Mono. This marks the first step in developing an open source alternative to Microsoft's .NET . . . (more…)

Newport Beach, CA — (press release excerpt) — Conexant Systems Inc. and Lineo Inc. today announced embedded Linux support for the Conexant CX821xx home network processor line. Conexant's embedded Linux board support package (BSP) is designed to lower software development costs for product designs utilizing CX821xx processors in applications such as asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) routers,… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that MontaVista Linux will support IBM's new 440GP PowerPC microprocessor, which has been developed for use in communications, networking, gaming, printers, storage and Internet appliances. (more…)

John Gowin examines mini Linux distributions in this article at LinuxOrbit.com. Gowin writes . . . (more…)

A tiny San Mateo, CA startup emerged from stealth mode today, unveiling its plan to develop “a second generation information appliance platform”. The concept for the new Linux-based wireless webpad device is the brainchild of Todd Shafer, President and Founder of DOT Design Technologies. (more…)