Linux Expo, MONTREAL — (company press release) — Rt-Control today announced the release of the latest uClinux system builder kit (version 2.0.38.1 pre 5). The new release adds support for the ARM7TDMI and i960 microprocessors, providing multiple platform support for deeply embedded microprocessors. (more…)

K-Team (Switzerland), a developer of miniature mobile robots, has announced that it is supporting the embedded Linux community by providing “Video for Linux” (V4L) drivers that support PC/104 and other video capture boards in robot vision applications. (more…)

Austin TX — (company press release) — Merinta, Inc. announced today that its first customer, Internet Appliance Network (IAN) began rollout of the first 10,000 Webplayer Internet Appliances this week. Merinta's iBrow Solution of software and services empowers the IAN appliances, which have been dubbed WebPlayer and will be supplied to Virginconnect, Virgin Entertainment's online outlet. (more…)

John G. Spooner, of ZDNet News, reports that NEO's $99 iDVD Internet appliance, slated to begin shipments in May, is powered by an embedded Linux operating system . . . (more…)

In an article entitled “Linux is fastest growing server OS” John Geralds, editor at VNUNET.com, writes about the growing use of Linux in the server OS market and sites a particularly interesting statistic that helps explain this trend . . . (more…)

Michelle Head, editor at LinuxMall.com, writes about the bright future for Linux among what she calls “alternative computing devices” (ACDs) . . . (more…)

Sandy, UTAH — Linux NetworX Inc., a recently-formed provider of large-scale clustered computer solutions for Internet, industry and research fields, named Stephen Hill vice president of business development. As an attorney in Salt Lake City, Hill acted as one of the lead council for Utah-based Caldera Systems, Inc. (more…)

MINIX author Andy Tanenbaum says “MINIX is much smaller than Linux and might well be suitable as the operating system for a watch, camera, or transistor radio.” MINIX source code has just been released under terms equivalent to the “BSD license”, according to a letter posted by Tanenbaum at Deja.com . . . (more…)

Philip Trauring writes, on the LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Forum . . .

“The Aplio Pro is an Internet telephony appliance that you can plug into an ethernet network and into a standard analog telephone and then allows you to make phone calls over the Internet to any other Aplio device or standard Internet telephony client (H.323). (more…)

Dallas, TX — Coollogic, Inc. has announced first shipments of Coollinux, a new embedded Linux operating system. Coollogic describes Coollinux as “a real time Linux operating system that solves the technical challenges of reducing the kernel size to meet the memory footprint and functionality requirements of embedded systems that, in the past, could not be applied to most applications because of memory… (more…)

Munich, Germany — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Intel Corporation announced today at the RSA Europe security conference it will deliver its Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) software to the industry at no cost. This will allow companies around the world to develop security-enabled software products faster and in a more cost-effective manner. (more…)

BEIJING — (BUSINESS WIRE) — TurboLinux, Inc., the high performance Linux company, announced today the first Chinese language version of a Linux embedded operating system running on Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector's PowerPC8240. This combined platform opens many opportunities for application development, especially for accessing the Internet, according to TurboLinux. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (company press release) — Ampro Computers, a leading supplier of EBX-compatible single-board computers and PC/104 modules for the worldwide embedded computing marketplace, today introduced platform-based design technology to the PC/104 community, along with two new PC/104 modules based on the new technology. (more…)

Montreal, Canada — /PRNewswire/ — Applied Microsystems Corp., a leading innovator in software development solutions, and MontaVista Software Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system are announced an agreement to integrate Applied's CodeTEST development tool into MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux operating system distribution. (more…)

Montreal, Canada — (company press release) — MontaVista Software, Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, today unveiled its Linux port for the recently-announced IBM PowerPC 405GP, a highly integrated, 350+ MIPS device for networked applications. (more…)