Lineo has established a website dedicated to disseminating the company's open source software contributions, as well as a number open source tools and utilities that might be useful to developers of embedded systems. Included among the open source projects covered on the site are: BusyBox, TinyLogin, uCLibc, uClinux, PoPToP, and ThinLinux. (more…)

Metro Link, Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) has released Open Motif with Metro Link's enhancements and bug fixes, available for free FTP download. Metro Link's package is an enhanced version of Open Motif, which includes approximately 30 significant bug fixes and enhancements to the Motif libraries and window manager, plus many minor source changes and over 100 fixes to the Motif demo source code. (more…)

Plymouth, Indiana — (press release) — ImageStream Internet Solutions is now shipping eight new DS3 and E3 WAN cards for Linux. The cards are available for the PCI and CompactPCI buses in DS3 and E3 flavors with one or two ports and integrated full-speed CSU/DSUs. The new WAN cards can be installed in most Linux-based systems, and they are compatible with ImageStream's Industrial and Pro series routers. (more…)

Michael Fitzpatrick, of Reuters, reports that Intel has announced its first so-called Web appliance — a device that provides a built-in phone, Internet access, and email. Fitzpatrick writes . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — ITsquare.com today announced the launch of Linux Square, a new service that provides access to scores of established Linux development firms. Through use of a web-based framework, clients are able to securely and efficiently procure the development of Linux applications. (more…)

Bernard Levine, editor of Cahners ElectronicNews Online, reports that ZF Linux Devices Inc. has received $15M in funding and plans to target X86 PCs-on-a-chip for embedded applications. Levine writes . . . (more…)

The following is an open letter written by EuroLinux to British Telecom, in response to news that BT has decided to assert that it owns a 14-year-old patent on the technology of hyperlinks . . . (more…)

Richard Barry, of ZDNet (UK), reports that British Telecom has begun to assert that it owns a 14-year-old patent on one of the keys to the Internet — hyperlinks. And, if upheld, it could start to ask for payments. Barry writes . . . (more…)

Trolltech has announced the release of the beta version of Qt/Embedded, a GUI application framework directly targeted at embedded systems. It is based on Trolltech's well known Qt technology offers developers of embedded applications the same power, flexibility, and cross-platform portability as the popular desktop versions, Qt/Windows and Qt/X11. (more…)

Today, a growing number of companies vie for the attention of embedded systems developers seeking to build and deploy on Linux. Which are going to grow, thrive, and eventually lead the industry? Which technologies, licensing practices, business models and market forces will determine the leaders? (more…)

Overland Park, KS — (press release) — Informix Corporation has announced the release of Linux versions of two key products: Foundation.2000, for Internet data and content management; and Cloudscape, a Java database for embeddable systems and distributed e-Business applications. Foundation.2000 and Cloudscape on Linux enable developers and users to develop and deploy high performance, next generation… (more…)

A new breed of system-on-chip silicon devices, in concert with embedded Linux, is helping to usher in the coming post-PC era. In this article, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum identifies the key attributes and requirements of the coming generation of intelligent interconnected devices and systems, and examines the latest trends in high integration system-on-chip integrated circuits. (more…)

This whitepaper by MontaVista Software's VP of Engineering, Kevin Morgan, looks at how the Linux open-source license impacts traditional vendor/customer business relationships. Morgan reviews the key reasons why embedded system developers are attracted to Linux, and examines alternative approaches to converting open-source software into profitable businesses. (more…)

Todd Spangler, editor of [email protected] Week, offers a perspective on yesterday's announcement by Lucent Technologies that it has exclusively licensed the Bell Labs developed Inferno operating system to Vita Nuovo. Vita Nuovo, a Lucent spinoff, concurrently announced that Inferno will be offered on a royalty-free, available-source (non-GPL) basis. (more…)

We've all heard about the coming “post-PC” era. Are we there yet? Is it just around the corner? Or, is the post-PC era just a bunch of hype? After all, most of us still use conventional PCs at work or home to do our computing. (more…)