Santa Cruz, CA — (press release excerpt) — As major computer hardware and software vendors intensify efforts to establish the Linux operating system's desktop foothold, the security and reliability of the open source software continues to earn high praise, a new survey of Linux software developers finds. (more…)

[Updated 9:30 am PDT] While this is not Embedded Linux specific, a cool contest from Sony and Ericsson invites developers to 'turn code into cash.' The announcement and details follow . . . (more…)

Writing at Linux Journal, Greg Kroah-Hartman gives a tutorial on kernel development using 'patch' and 'diff' . . . (more…)

Writing at ZDNet (UK), Matthew Broersma reports that the Xbox Linux Project has released software that allows the console to deploy across a network . . . (more…)

Writing at CNET, Paul Festa reports on Opera's pending release of a faster version of their popular — and already fast — browser. Festa examines Opera 7's new rendering engine that was rewritten from the ground up over the past 18 months . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Atmel Corporation released today three new parts to its family of Wireless LAN products. This family, called Fast-VirtualNet, are single chip baseband Media Access Controllers (MAC) supporting three popular system interfaces: PCMCIA or Compact Flash, USB and PCI or mini-PCI. (more…)

MontaVista Software will today unveil a free 'Preview Kit' which lets embedded system developers evaluate the capabilities of the company's embedded Linux distribution and tool suite in advance of making a purchase commitment. The free kit demonstrates several key packages and technologies included in MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1, and includes a full MontaVista Linux kernel which runs on a… (more…)

Framingham, MA — (press release excerpt) — IDG World Expo announced today that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo/San Francisco 2002 attendance increased by 12 percent over last year, totaling 20,070. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Metrowerks is releasing a series of tool suites designed to make life easier for Embedded Linux developers, who have traditionally used command-line tools limited to Linux-hosted workstations. Hosted on Windows platforms, CodeWarrior Development Studio, Embedded Linux Edition, is a graphical development environment for creating complex applications that run on… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Fast-Chip and Kenati Technologies announced today the successful integration of Network Persona, Kenati's flagship Embedded Linux platform, with Fast-Chip's DP-MR1 'Multi-Rate development platform', featuring Fast-Chip's PolicyEdge services processor. (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — Finite State Machine Labs, Inc. (FSMLabs) announced the immediate availability of RTLinux/Pro and RTLinux Dev Kit for Cirrus Logic's EP7312 family of high performance low power embedded processors based on the ARM720T core. (more…)

Hong Kong — (press release excerpt) — Valourtech Company Ltd announced today that it has ported its vtLinux embedded Linux operating system to Motorola's DragonBall MX1 wireless application microprocessor. (more…)

The Internet — (press release excerpt) — Today the Xbox Linux project announced that it had succeeded in fully booting Linux on the Microsoft Xbox Gaming System (“Really. No video, but telnet and http”). The free operating system Linux is able to be booted either from flash memory, or (more easily) from a CD inserted into the machine. (more…)

This article at IBM's developerWorks website offers an overview of assembly language programming from a PowerPC perspective, and provides examples for three architectures: IA32 (x86), PowerPC, and PowerPC-64. The article assumes a basic understanding of computer design (for example, you should know that a processor has registers and can access memory) and of operating systems (system calls, exceptions,… (more…)

This online tutorial at IBM's developerWorks website is useful for anyone who is new to Linux or who wants to review or improve their understanding of fundamental Linux concepts, such as copying files, moving files, and creating symbolic and hard links. In this tutorial, Daniel Robbins (President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies, Inc.) begins preparing you for the Linux Professional Institute's 101 exam. (more…)