I just spent a couple of days at this year's Applied Computing Conference, held in San Jose, CA. New this year, were several presentations on embedded Linux (see below *). But beyond that not-so-surprising occurrence, there were two things — one very large, and one very small — that REALLY caught my attention . . . (more…)

FREMONT, Calif. — (press release) — M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. announced today that DiskOnChip 2000 products are being upgraded to an advanced flash 0.21 micron process technology. Additionally, the internal flash file system technology, known as TrueFFS, is being upgraded to a new version (4.1 and 1.23 for DOS) in order to support the change and provide new features. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum reports on his observations at the recent Applied Computing conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Rick writes . . . (more…)

On June 28, 2000 The Open Group will launch the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum. Following, is an announcement from The Open Group about the new organization . . . (more…)

The Linux Business Expo (Canada) has announced a panel discussion on embedded Linux. The session, entitled “Why Embedded Linux”, will take place on Thursday, July 13. In that session Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks, Lynuxworks CEO Inder Singh, representatives from Red Hat and emWare, and moderator Al Gillen (IDC Research Manager) will discuss the future of embedded Linux systems and devices. (more…)

Linux Weekly News has published an interesting article about a real-life consumer product that contains embedded Linux — the Axis 2100 network camera. That camera contains the Axis ETRAX system-on-chip IC, along with Axis' embedded Linux software (see references below). LWN editor Jonathan Corbet writes . . . (more…)

Ithaca, NY — (press release) — Traquair Data Systems, Inc. and Strategic Partner Hunt Engineering (UK) Ltd. are now supporting Linux on computers hosting their high performance HERON and TIM-40 multiple processor DSP boards. Traquair Data Systems claims that this is the most aggressive Linux support introduced from the DSP community to date. (more…)