There are various ways to watch a running user-space program: you can run a debugger on it and step through the program, add print statements, or add a tool to analyze the program. This technical article at IBM's developerWorks website describes methods you can use to debug programs that run on Linux. (more…)

Seen on the comp.sys.handhelds Usenet newsgroup . . .

Seeking about 3 volunteers to test a moving map program for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. The program draws vector maps with serial port NMEA (GPS) input. It also operates on other platforms such as notebook computers, but I'm looking for Zaurus users. (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDG World Expo today announced the winners of the Open Source Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. (more…)

Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt)– Equator Technologies Inc. today announced that its iMMediaTools Software Development Toolkit Version 6.0 and its port of Embedded Linux for BSP-15 processors are now available for software partners. This release will enable Equator's software partners to meet the demand for Linux-based solutions by porting their advanced codecs and other video-centric applications… (more…)

In Part 2 of this two part series at Linux Journal, Joe Edwards, Audin Malmin and Ron Shaker introduce RAID-1. This installment features how to make a RAID-1 swap device and boot from a RAID-1 device, as well as how to use RAID-1 to facilitate disk backups . . . (more…)

IBM demonstrated a new low power PowerPC-based system-on-chip processor running MontaVista Linux at LinuxWorld this week. The new PowerPC based system-on-chip processor, which seems poised to compete with Intel's XScale processors for mobile device design wins, is described in its preliminary data sheet as a “highly integrated device offering high-performance at ultra-low power”. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Transmeta Corp. today announced the availability of the Crusoe TM5800 System Development Kit, which will enable design engineers to quickly develop new mobile and embedded computing platforms using the Crusoe processor. (more…)

From an announcement on Trolltech's website . . .

A tentative roadmap for the releases of future versions of Qtopia, designed to inform customers, users, and most importantly, developers of the changes expected to occur in the coming versions of Qtopia, has been released. (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release excerpt) — Meeting nine times since kickoff in March, the Embedded Linux Consortium's Core Platform Working Group has achieved consensus on a strawman specification. The document will soon circulate for comment among member companies under the organization's intellectual property rules. (more…)

This ZDNet special report features stories and news from the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco. Stories discuss Sun's new server product and Linux strategy, IBM's partnership with VA Software, Red Hat's targeting AMD's Hammer family of processors with a server product, proposed legislation to foster open source adoption, and more!

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[Updated Aug. 14, 2002] San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — the Free Standards Group announced that three leading Linux distributions — MandrakeSoft, Red Hat, and SuSE — have become Linux Standard Base (LSB) certified. [Note: LinuxDevices.com received an earlier announcement indicating that the following six additional distributions were certified, but apparently… (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a non-profit organization funded by the Korean government, today unveiled a suite of Embedded Linux technologies and middleware which it plans to license to manufacturing companies within Korea and elsewhere. (more…)

[Updated 2:45pm PDT] San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux Working Group today delivered the Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition V1.0 and Carrier Grade Linux Architecture Specification V1.0. The CGL Requirements Definition incorporates comments from the industry and the developer community received through the OSDL developer site. (more…)

From the floor of LinuxWorld Expo . . .

If you head on over to the Sharp Electronics Booth, #683, Sharp is selling the Zaurus SL-5500 retail version for (US) $299. They only have about 1000 units left, so hurry and get yours today! (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — LTrix Engineering today announced the release of lice, a professional debugger for engineers developing device drivers, customizing the kernel for embedded systems, and working on the kernel. (more…)