Charles Babcock, editor of ZDNet's [email protected] Week, has been pondering the potential for Linux to fork . . . (more…)

ZipSpeak is a talking mini-distribution of Linux for blind and visually impaired people, based on version 7.0 of the ZipSlack distribution and version 0.08 of the Speakup screen reader. ZipSpeak is designed to be easily installed on an existing MS-DOS or Windows system, so that the user can start using a talking Linux system with a minimum of difficulty. (more…)

[Updated: July 18, 2000] Singapore — (press release) — smartBridges announced availability of a Linux software driver for the company's smartNIC USB networking adapter. The adapter brings the benefits of Hot Plug & Play and simplicity of USB to Linux systems. The driver has been validated with several popular Linux distributions, including Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux, Mandrake, and EasyLinux. (more…)

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — (company press release) — eSoft Inc. today announced an agreement with Intel to support Intel's Entry-level Communication Appliance Reference Design platform, based on eSoft's redphish technology. The agreement includes collaborative sales and marketing of eSoft's redphish software for Intel's Reference Design platform. (more…)

You want free design files for a small yet powerful embedded computer capable of running Linux? Try LART: 250 MIPS under 1 Watt. The PCB holds 32MB DRAM and 4MB Flash ROM, which is sufficient for a Linux kernel and a sizeable ramdisk image. Get it all at www.lart.tudelft.nl (more…)

MILPITAS, Calif./TOKYO, Japan �- (company press release) — Access Co. Ltd. today introduced its royalty-free AVE-HTTPD embedded web server as an optional module for the company�s popular AVE-TCP SDK, a TCP/IP networking software development kit. Envisioning the future of proliferating Internet appliances, Access is planning to address the industry�s challenge of effective networking and management… (more…)

Troll Tech today announced that it is developing a GUI application framework directly targeted at embedded Linux systems. Based on Troll Tech's popular and proven Qt technology, the new product will be named Qt/Embedded, and will give developers of embedded applications the same power, flexibility and cross-platform portability as the popular desktop versions, Qt/Windows and Qt/X11. (more…)

LinuxLinks.com is a Linux portal site that is dedicated to covering the entire Linux scene. It initially started as a private bookmark collection and has reached a milestone today with 10,000 verified Linux links! With over 6,000 links to Linux Software, we hope to show the non-Linux community that Linux has a huge range of applications to choose from. (more…)

LINDON, UTAH — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux® system software, today announced an agreement with Coresoft Technologies to deliver a Linux-based computer telephony solution. Embedded CenterPoint will use Embedix Linux, Lineo's embedded Linux-based operating system, to provide ISVs and application developers a software engine for embedded Linux telephony… (more…)

LINDON, UTAH — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced that Moreton Bay Ventures, based in Brisbane, Australia has agreed to be acquired by Lineo. Moreton Bay is a leading developer of embedded VPN solutions for Internet appliances and also specializes in engineering development for the Motorola ColdFire chip platform. (more…)

Columbus OH and San Jose, CA — (company press release) — Moreton Bay LLC, a leading provider of embedded Linux Internet VPN routers, and Progressive Systems, Inc., a leading vendor of Linux-based network security solutions, today announced their joint development of an embedded firewall appliance solution based on the Progressive Systems Phoenix Adaptive Firewall, the only firewall for Linux that is both… (more…)

Memphis, Tennessee — (company press release) — Rick Collette, the creator and former maintainer of the SPIRO-Linux Distribution, announced today that he would be forming a new company: deepLinux. While the primary focus is to be the OEM market, deepLinux is also taking on embedded Linux projects having to do with game systems and network appliances. (more…)

Milpitas, CA — (company press release) — Adaptec, Inc. today announced that its Ultra160 SCSI technology is the first in the industry to be ported to the Linux IA-64 kernel — the basis for the 64-bit version of the increasingly popular Linux open source operating system. By working closely with leading Linux provider Red Hat, Inc., Adaptec brings a key technology to the Linux user community. (more…)

Stephanie Miles writes, at CNET News.com . . .

“Microsoft is considering giving away parts or all of the source code to Windows CE, sources said today, in a bid to spur hardware manufacturers to use the floundering software.” (more…)

London, Ontario, CANADA — (company press release) — Microtronix has become a sustaining level sponsor of LinuxDevices.com (see listing), a web portal to the world of embedded Linux. Microtronix would like to support the valuable contribution that LinuxDevices.com and its founder Rick Lehrbaum have made to the… (more…)