[Updated Jan. 20, 2005] — The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) will host a technical conference for members and their invitees only, January 25th and 26th in San Jose, Calif. The conference features sessions and technical demonstrations delivered by a veritable who's who of embedded Linux luminaries. (more…)

The Open Embedded group is seeking speakers and attendees for a mini-conference on developing and using open source platforms such as Linux on handheld and other embedded devices. The conference will coincide with Australia's national Linux conference, LCA 2005, set for Apr. 18-23 at Australian National University in Canberra. (more…)

A story today at eWeek refutes a wild rumor circulating this week that IBM and the OSDL will re-write the Linux kernel to avoid patent infringements. The rumor began when the organizations announced a joint press conference, set for next Tuesday, involving a program codenamed “Project Open Gates.” (more…)

NEC used an embedded, real-time database from TimesTen to build a telecommunications switch for mobile operators supporting Internet traffic, TimesTen says. NEC used TimesTen/DataServer in its Packet Core Node, said to be the first commercial telecom switch based on Intel hardware and Carrier Grade Linux. (more…)

[Updated Jan. 19, 2005] — Green Hills Software has filed an antitrust suit against competitor Wind River, alleging the embedded giant blocked it from effectively marketing development tools for VxWorks, Wind River's flagship embedded operating system. Green Hills also alleges that Wind River slighted its Multi tools in advertising Workbench (more…)

The third-annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is set for February 12-13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and the event will feature a number of speakers of interest to embedded Linux developers. The event solicited papers about embedded Linux in November of last year. (more…)

Kontron has introduced three new high-performance CompactPCI CPU boards — one in 3U and two in 6U format — based on 2 GHz Intel Pentium M 755 or 760 processors. All three support embedded Linux, are designed for passive cooling, and support rear backplane I/O. (more…)

TimeSys is offering a 14-day trial download (registration required) of its development toolkit for embedded Linux. TimeStorm Linux Development Suite (LDS) works with all embedded Linux distributions, supports hundreds of available plugins for the Eclipse 3.0, and is bundled with LDKs supporting 90 specific processors across seven architectures, TimeSys says. (more…)

The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) has hired its second “Fellow.” The fellowship will enable Samba developer Andrew Tridgell, PhD, to work full-time on the next major release of Samba, a widely used suite enabling Windows to be replaced with Linux and other operating systems on (more…)

LynuxWorks has ported open source virtual platform software to its kit for developers using Apple's PowerPC G5 desktop as a development platform for IBM's 64-bit PPC 970 processor. User-Mode Linux (UML) for PowerPC targets developers wishing to experiment with unstable kernels or applications without endangering their host systems. (more…)

LynuxWorks is now shipping its first product targeting the retail/POS (point-of-sales) market. BlueCat Linux POS is based on a 2.6 kernel, supports USB and variety of POS hardware, and comes with long-term support. It includes drivers for POS peripherals such as barcode scanners, and is available with development tools. (more…)

The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) has incorporated in California as a not-for-profit organization. The new status, obtained January 1, will give CELF more flexibility to fund open source development work, and create relationships with other organizations, it says. (more…)

The PC/104 Consortium has absorbed the new, mid-sized Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing (EPIC) standard into its growing portfolio of embedded computer board-level specifications. According to the consortium, an “overwhelming majority” of members voted in support of adopting EPIC, (more…)

IBM has published the following technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its developerWorks Website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . . ! (more…)

Virtio Corp. has enhanced its software tool that emulates TI's OMAP2420 system-on-chip (SoC) development platform, adding support for the platform's onboard TWL92230 system power manager. Virtio's VPOM-2420 Virtual Platform release 2.0 provides “fast, full-function emulation” for TI's OMAP2420 development platform, which targets advanced 3G phones, the company says. (more…)