Introduction, by Rick Lehrbaum: According to a recent poll of developers of embedded Linux based systems, a third of all new systems will contain an M-Systems DiskOnChip Flash disk as the primary boot and storage device. (more…)

Adding to support previously announced by embedded Linux suppliers Lineo and MontaVista (see references, below), TimeSys today announced a pSOS Abstraction Layer (PAL) that works in conjunction with the company's Linux/RT embedded Linux distribution. The abstraction layer maps pSOS system calls to TimeSys Linux/RT calls. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) today formally announced the results of its first election for the organization's Board of Directors. The 90+ member ELC voted from a field of nearly 30 candidates, resulting in the election of six. Now installed, the Board is responsible for taking the organization to the next level as a proactive strategic initiative favoring the… (more…)

According to a recent poll of developers of embedded Linux based systems, a third of all new systems will contain an M-Systems DiskOnChip Flash disk as the primary boot and storage device. (more…)

Although this article by eWEEK's Anne Chen is oriented towards mobile phone access to web content, the implications to Linux-based intelligent interconnected devices are not hard to extrapolate. Chen examines the emerging technologies and trends in this hot new arena, and clarifies the differences between alternatives techniques such as “content scraping” and VoiceXML. (more…)

Glue layers can greatly simplify the porting of applications from one software environment to another. The concept of a “glue layer” becomes especially practical when there is a large body of already-debugged application software, and it's not desireable to recode that software to a new, different programming interface. (more…)

This whitepaper, by Microwindows Project leader Greg Haerr, explains how you can greatly simplify the task of porting a non-Linux graphics application to embedded Linux. The magic lies in taking advantage of “glue layers” that convert between APIs. Haerr writes . . . (more…)

David Sugar, Bayonne GNU maintainer, writes . . . In finalizing the fourth milestone release for Bayonne (the telephony server of the GNU project), much work has gone into making Bayonne not just more stable and usable as a traditional telephony server, but also in expanding the very definition of computer-driven telephony services and Bayonne's integration with other existing services. (more…)

Microwindows v0.88 will provide greatly enhanced support for Far Eastern languages. The new release adds support for Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean fonts, using four different character encoding standards. Beta version 0.88pre9, containing the new support, is currently available for download from the Microwindows project website. (more…)

Red Hat has announced a specialized version of the Red Hat Linux 6.2 distribution called “the Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0”. The new product is described as “an out-of-the-box clustering solution that features dynamic load balancing, improved fault tolerance, and scalability of TCP/IP based applications.” (more…)

Active Exhibitions Europe has issued a formal “call for papers” for the Applied Computing Developers' Conference & Expo, which will be held November 6-11 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Talks on embedded and real-time Linux technologies and applications are especially desired. Following, is the text of the request . . . (more…)

Lineo Inc. and Hitachi Semiconductor have announced plans to port Lineo's Embedix Linux software to Hitachi's SuperH RISC microprocessors. The collaboration will support makers of intelligent mobile devices, Internet appliances, and other embedded systems, including such products as smart phones, e-commerce terminals. (more…)

SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) has announced a new Flash storage option for the embedded market, the ATA-Disk Chip (ADC), which the company claims represents the industry's first ATA Flash drive in a common 32-pin DIP IC package. Since the ADC mimics normal IDE drives, from both a hardware and software perspective, designing embedded Linux systems with it should be simple. (more…)

Sandy, UT — (press release) — Linux NetworX, Inc., a specialist in large-scale clustered computer solutions for Internet, industry and research fields, announced today the release of its cluster management software, ClusterWorX version 1.2. ClusterWorX allows users of Linux NetworX cluster systems to control the cluster as one single system and provides remote monitoring and management capabilities. (more…)

Dr. Peter Wurmsdobler and Nicholas McGuire have unveiled a plan to launch a new Real Time Linux Consortium (RTLC) at the second Real Time Linux Workshop being held this November in Orlando, Florida. Here is an overview of the purpose and scope of the proposed organization, from Dr. Wurmsdobler . . . (more…)