Karim Yaghmour updates us on the Linux Trace Toolkit in this email excerpt …

A new patch, 2.5.7, is available for the Linux Trace Toolkit. The toolkits now supports five CPU architectures: i386, PPC, S/390, SuperH, and MIPS. (more…)

San Jose, CA — press release excerpt) — Altera Corp. today announced that its Quartus II version 2.0 design software now supports Red Hat's Linux version 7.1 operating system. Available immediately, this release is the industry's first native Linux tool that allows programmable logic device (PLD) designers to take advantage of more efficient distributed computing platforms. (more…)

In this informative article about Embedded Linux at Dr. Dobb's Journal, Todd Fischer asks 'Who needs excess baggage?' Fischer, director of engineering and telephony for RidgeRun, examines key techniques for development using embedded Linux . . . (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced embedded Linux support for Motorola's MVME2433-3 and MVME5100-0131 single board computers (SBC) built on the PowerPC 750 processor. Embedded systems developers looking for a Linux solution for these PowerPC 750-based VME boards will be able to download a complete, certified solution beginning April 26. (more…)

Jon “maddog” Hall introduces us to the Linux Mark Institute in this overview of trademarks as they relate to 'Linux'. The Linux Mark Institute was created to handle licensing of the term 'Linux' to companies and individuals wanting to incorporate it into their own trademarks. (more…)

Have you noticed something new at LinuxDevices.com? With more than 1,200 articles, links, and product listings, we felt that a tree-structured Directory that lets you browse these stories by category would be a worthwhile tool to have, along with the existing Site Search… (more…)

Porting Windows applications to Linux doesn't have to involve a retraining nightmare. Markus Neifer shows how to port Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) using wxWindows, giving a user's guide to this open source GUI toolkit and providing a complete, step-by-step porting example. (more…)

What's all the fuss about a new machine called the x343? IBM's new Linux-based eServer, which is targeted at the emerging Linux-based telecom server industry, is spotlighted in this telecom industry update from IBM. Also discussed, are a new Linux Service Provider Lab for Linux software testing and the Open Source Development Lab's “Carrier Grade Linux” project . (more…)

An announcement from Bill Kendrick of New Breed Software . . .

Three open source games created for the Linux desktop using libSDL — “Vectoroids,” “Mad Bomber”, and “Bug Squish” — have been ported to the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA. Each game has been scaled down graphically to fit the touchscreen display, and released as an easily-installed package for the Zaurus. (more…)

[Updated 4:00pm PDT] ZDNet has created a special feature devoted to this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) held by Microsoft in Seattle, WA . . . (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs Inc. today announced the immediate availabity of user-mode hard real-time capability for the RTLinux/Pro hard real-time operating system. (more…)

Writing for ZDNet (UK), Matthew Broersma discusses Sharp's Zaurus launch plans for Europe. Broersma reports . . . (more…)

OQO (pronounced “oh-q-oh”) unveiled a unique tiny modular computer at Microsoft's WinHEC conference today in Seattle, WA. The newly created “ultra-personal computer” PC category has the potential to “transform personal computing the same way the cell phone has revolutionized telecommunications,” says OQO executive vice president Colin Hunter. (more…)

CNET News.com Staff Writer David Becker reports that Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy . . . (more…)

Issaquah, WA — (press release excerpt) — McObject has released version 2.0 of its eXtremeDB small footprint, in-memory database system (IMDS) on Linux, with new features that improve developer flexibility and enhance the run-time capabilities of applications based on eXtremeDB. In addition to overall performance enhancements, new features in eXtremeDB 2.0 include object-versioning, notifications, and new… (more…)