Matt Berger, of IDG News Service reported on the growing Embedded Linux trend that was unleashed at the Embedded Systems Conference last week in San Francisco. Berger wrote . . . (more…)

Orlando, FL — (press release excerpt) — Philips is underlining its support of open standards-based technologies with a unique demonstration of mobile multimedia delivery which brings together the MPEG-4, Java, and Linux platforms. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. is sponsoring three half-day seminars for embedded software developers in Florida, Washington and Canada. The seminars, entitled 'Moving from a Proprietary RTOS to Embedded Linux,' will be held in Boca Raton, Fla. (more…)

This online IBM whitepaper summarizes the problems encountered by IBM's LAN Distributed Platform (LANDP) for Linux team whilst porting LANDP from OS/2 to Linux. This paper should be useful to other teams that are porting OS/2 applications to Linux . . . (more…)

Charles J. Murray reports on the Embedded Linux Consortium meeting last week at ESC in San Francisco. Introducing a critical point of view from one Embedded Linux vendor, Murray writes . . . (more…)

Orlando, FL — (press release excerpt) — SavaJe Technologies today announced its entry into the smartphone market with two unnamed Asian and European customers. SavaJe Technologies claims that its SavaJe OS Smartphone Edition is the world's first operating system to support the complete set of Java APIs — from MIDP to J2SE — on handheld and wireless devices. (more…)

Kirkland, WA –(press release excerpt) — Wildseed, formerly GITWiT, today announced the unveiling of its Smart Skins on the first working prototype of the Smart Skin-enabled phone at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando, Florida. (more…)

The two keynote presentations from the March 12, 2002 Embedded Linux Consortium meeting are now available online, as follows . . .

• The Future of Embedded Linux (and the evolving role of the Embedded Linux Consortium)
  by Rick Lehrbaum, Founder and Executive Editor of LinuxDevices.com
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San Clemente, CA — (press release excerpt) — The RTC Group announces a Call for Papers for its Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) scheduled on June 11, 2002 in Dallas, Texas. ELEC is a focused event featuring conference presentations from high-level experts, as well as a showcase for new products and solutions from software and hardware… (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt)– Century Embedded Technologies today announced an enhanced version of the Linux4.TV complete open-source set-top box solution, created by partner, National Semiconductor. Linux4.TV version 1.1.0 is available for download immediately and provides support for National's Geode SP1SC10 demonstration and development platform, along with extended functionality for… (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — this week at the Embedded Systems Conference, General Software unveiled Firmbase, a software development kit (SDK) that offers a fault-tolerant, run-time infrastructure which allows high-availability firmware programs (called “firmware applications”) to run concurrently with industry-standard operating systems (including Linux). (more…)

A comment from a LinuxDevices.com reader . . .

At the Linux Forum 2002, Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer from IBM in Böblingen, Germany, gave an interview to Ole Tange, SSLUG (a Scandinavian Linux users group), on how IBM deals with software patents when . . . developing [with] Linux. (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs announced today that its RTLinux/Pro hard-real-time operating system now supports the StrongArm processor. RTLinux/Pro and FSMLabs RTLinux/Pro Embedded Linux Development Kit for StrongARM will start shipping to customers by the end of March. (more…)

BSDToday reports . . .

“Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced the release of version 4.3 of BSD/OS, the company's commercial UNIX-based operating system. According to the bsdi-users mailing list, BSD/OS 4.3 has been available since December with many BSD/OS users receiving their 4.3 updates in January.” (more…)

Jim Hu of CNET reports that AOL is testing Netscape Communicator in a “move that could reignite a browser war” by making Netscape the default for some 34 million Web surfers . . . (more…)