CSK Auto, the largest auto parts chain in the Western U.S., with with 1,100 Checker, Schuck's, and Kragen auto parts stores in 19 states, is moving to a Linux-based point-of-sale (POS) system implemented by POS device and open systems software development specialist Ultimate Technology. (more…)

German single-board computer vendor Lippert is shipping a passively cooled version of its Centrino-like Thunderbird mini-ITX board based on an Intel Pentium M running at 1.3GHz. An actively cooled version running at 1.6GHz has been available since… (more…)

This brief interview with Beagle-2 mission control software Principal Developer Stewart Hall sheds light on the emerging role of Linux in European space missions, including the recent Beagle-2 mission. (more…)

HP has announced Linux-related revenues exceeding $2.5 billion dollars for 2003. The company also announced that its diskless thin-client workstations support LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) software, that several notebooks and workstatins are certified to run SuSE Linux, and that high-availability clustering software is now available for 64-bit systems. (more…)

In an editorial published by EE Times, Dan O'Dowd makes dire forecasts about the embedded Linux tools market. O'Dowd opines, essentially, that the Linux tools market will die because anyone willing to pay for tools will also be willing to pay for a higher quality, proprietary operating system. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com today launched its fourth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey, and invites all readers to participate. The brief survey — just 17 questions — probes developer preferences and industry trends. Over the last four years, the survey has become an important resource for industry analysts and decision makers. (more…)

Below is a brief interview with Stewart Hall, principal developer of the Linux-based Mission Control Software and Mission Planning Software for the European Beagle-2 Mars lander project (B2MCS and B2MPS, respectively). (more…)

German mobile infrastructure specialist Giga Stream has used MontaVista Linux Professional running in a carrier grade application environment to build a “Universal Navigation Switch” (UNS) that integrates voice, data, and radio access to support seamless roaming between Radio Access Networks (RANs) and Wireless LANs. (more…)

eCosCentric says that it, too, will assign its eCos-related copyrights to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), following yesterday's announcement that Red Hat would do likewise. eCosCentric believes that copyright unification under the FSF will benefit the entire eCos developer community and increase eCos's share of the… (more…)

A market research report published by Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) looks at the sudden importance of RFID (Radio Frequency ID), a fascinating technology that replaces fragile and tedious barcode tags with tiny and inexpensive transponders that can be probed by radio transceivers. (more…)

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 16-17 in San Francisco at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square, will focus on the business, legal, and financial issues faced by open source software vendors and end-user organizations. Vendors, visionaries, legal counsel, and financiers will take part, according to event organizers. (more…)

Novell, which recently acquired prominent Linux distributor SuSE, has launched a copyright lawsuit indemnification program for qualifying enterprise and other customers. The company asserts that its legal connection to UNIX and SVR4 uniquely positions it to offer such indemnification. (more…)

Sharp's just-introduced SL-6000, an enterprise-oriented model featuring IBM middleware, is the first device to feature Opera 7 for embedded devices, Opera Software announced. (more…)

Interpeak AB has released the second generation of its Secure Shell (SSH) daemon, which it claims has a smaller footprint and more flexible shell integration model than the free alternatives on Linux. The release supports IPv6, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), and Remote Authentication via RADIUS, and is fully supported by Interpeak. (more…)

McObject has unveiled a royalty-free single-threaded version of its eXtremeDB in-memory database, which the company positions as a powerful, economical solution for embedded systems with streamlined database needs. eXtremeDB supports Linux on the x86 platform. (more…)