FSMLabs has announced the release of RTLinux V3.0 hard realtime Linux to developer beta status. RTLinux features a POSIX 1003.13 API, hard real-time functionality, and the ability to take full advantage of the Linux kernel (which runs under RTLinux as a non real-time thread). RTLinux V3 currently supports Intel x86, Alpha, and PowerPC processors. (more…)

(press release) — Indrema Corporation, the Open Source digital entertainment company, announced that Linux users will soon enjoy a wave of professional video applications thanks to an Open Source project called OpenStream. The OpenStream project is a collaboration of several development groups, including Indrema, LiViD, and other major Linux vendors soon to be announced working to create a new… (more…)

ZDNet's GAMESPOT channel has some interesting details about the forthcoming entertainment console from startup Indrema, which runs an embedded Linux OS. The L600 is expect to retail for $299.00. Shahed Ahmed writes . . . (more…)

eWEEK editor Ken Popovich reports on a panel discussion about Information Appliances at this week's Embedded Processor Forum held in San Jose, CA. The panel consisted of executives from Cirrus Logic, Microsoft, InfoGear, S3, and PictureIQ, and was moderated by Michael Slater of Cahners MicroDesign Resources. Popovich writes . . . (more…)

ZDNet-UK editor Will Knight reports on some assistance Linux is providing to the Cambridge University DNA decoding project. The Linux isn't part of an embedded system, in this case, but the DNA certainly is ;) (more…)

Europe — (announcement) — The Eurolinux Alliance of European software companies and OpenSource associations has launched a campaign to warn European legislators against the dangers of software patents. (more…)

This guest column by ZDNet News reader Charles Flink argues that software is no longer a product, but has now become a service. Flink offers some friendly advice to Linux software companies. Flink writes . . . (more…)

An official “Call for Votes” (CFV) is currently in progress for the creation of the USENET group: comp.os.linux.embedded (the discussion of the Linux operating system on embedded hardware). The vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. (more…)

DevelopOnline.com will be conducting two focus groups for Linux programmers at the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference in San Jose. The first focus group will be held at 7:00 p.m. June 21st, the evening before the conference. The second focus group will be held during lunch the day of the conference. (more…)

Most of us in the Linux Community are aware of the success Linux has been enjoying in the server market. Recent announcements by IBM, Intel, AMD etc about their continued support for Linux in their product offerings is great news and shows the industry is fully behind Linux in other areas beyond the server. (more…)

Want to implement the essentials of a Linux-based Internet firewall or residential gateway using hardly more than a single chip? Austin, Texas startup Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc. may have just what you need: the Au1000 “Internet Edge Processor”, unveiled earlier this week at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. (more…)

John G. Spooner, of ZDNet News, reports that Intel is releasing an open source development kit for Universal Plug and Play support for Linux. This effort by Intel is part of it's Connected.Home initiative (info). Spooner writes . . . (more…)

Cirrus Logic used the occasion of the Embedded Processor Forum (San Jose, CA) to unveil the first public details of a new family of very high integration system-on-chip (SOC) devices. The first SOC in the new Maverick family is the EP9312 — a one-chip computer meant to enable cost-effective home audio jukeboxes and servers. (more…)

Dallas, TX — (press release) — Coollogic Inc. today announced today it will license its Java-based, embedded Linux operating system to Acer for its family of Internet Appliance (IA) products. (more…)

InfoWorld editor Bob Metcalf writes about Kerbango's Linux-based Internet radio appliance. He reviews the entire history of radio, the key technologies involved in today's Internet radio revolution, and some of the features of Kerbango's novel invention. Metcalf writes . . . (more…)