The ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) professional team has been founded. The team has two members: Jaroslav Kysela from Czech Republic, the ALSA team leader; and Abramo Bagnara from Italy. These members are employed by SuSE to work full-time on the ALSA project. (more…)

EE Times, in an story by Chappel Brown, reports that Endgate Corporation has developed a multi-processor system based on Linux, capable of dramatically reducing the time required to model complex analog systems such as optimal antenna shape designs. Predictions of antenna performance are based on highly complex multi-variable computations which can take weeks, even months, of computation using conventional… (more…)