Lineo has announced that the company's Vice President of Engineering, Kim Clark, will participate in a COMDEX Canada “Power Panel” discussion on “Why Embedded Linux?” The event takes places on Thursday, July 13 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Linux Business Expo featured at this week's COMDEX Canada 2000. (more…)

Lineo and National Semiconductor today announced an agreement to co-develop Linux based software development kits for the Information Appliance (IA) market. Target applications include set-top boxes, web pads, and other such devices. The reference platforms will be based on Embedix, Lineo's embedded Linux operating system and tools software, and will support National's Geode processor hardware reference… (more…)

BLAST Inc. (Pittsboro, NC) has launched a new website dedicated to the embedded Linux market: www.SiliconPenguin.com. In his announcement of the site, BLAST president Steve Rogers said “www.SiliconPenguin.com is dedicated to gathering and presenting the most comprehensive index of information on embedded Linux. (more…)

BOSTON, Embedded Systems Conference Summer 2000 — (press release) — M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. announced today that leading Linux operating system developers are providing support for DiskOnChip in existing and upcoming Linux distributions. Lineo, a leading developer of embedded Linux systems software, is currently integrating support for DiskOnChip into Embedix, its embedded Linux
software… (more…)

I'm pleased to report that the world's first Embedded Linux Expo & Conference held on June 22, 2000 in San Jose, CA was a huge success! Everyone, including both attendees and exhibitors, agreed that the event was extremely worthwhile — and most are already making plans to attend the next ELEC (October 27, Boston). (more…)

CarbonKernel.org has announced CarbonKernel 1.2, a GPL-released real-time operating system (RTOS) API simulator that includes the first public release of a simulation model mimicking RTLinux, the popular real-time Linux add-on. The simulator allows tracing the execution of embedded software at source code level, and provides concurrent target debugging capabilities, UI simulation, and more. (more…)

Terra Soft Solutions and FSMLabs have announced that RTLinux for PowerPC will be included in the next release of Terra Soft's Black Lab Linux distribution, and also in future releases of Champion Server. RTLinux adds hard realtime capabilities to Linux, allowing Linux to reliably control machines, robots, data acquisition devices, telecommunications switches, and other systems having precise timing… (more…)

The proposal to create comp.os.linux.embedded has been approved by a large majority. There were 500 YES votes and 8 NO votes, for a total of 508 valid votes. The newsgroup's address is currently propagating around the Internet and should be available soon. (more…)

Lisa Morgan, of Software Development Times, writes about the range of embedded operating systems that are competing for mind share in the rapidly expanding Internet Appliance market. Morgan discusses VxWorks, QNX, Windows, Java, and Linux, and includes comments from Dataquest industry analyst Daya Nadamuni. (more…)

SpeechWorks International, Inc. (Boston, MA) has announced an initiative called the Open Speech Web, aimed at creating a speech-based implementation of the World Wide Web. The proposed network of interconnected speech services will allow consumers to “speech-surf” or to connect to speech-aware applications simply by speaking commands into a telephone or Internet-enabled audio input device. (more…)

[Revised July 6, 2000; note updated conference location.] San Clemente and Palo Alto, Calif. — The RTC Group and LinuxDevices.com have announced a revised venue and date for the second Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC). The event will take place on Friday, October 27th at the Wyndham Westborough Hotel, 5400 Computer Drive, Westborough, Mass. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder (and ELEC technical conference chair) Rick Lehrbaum reports on the world's first Embedded Linux Expo & Conference, that was held on June 22, 2000 in San Jose, CA. Abstracts of the talks, speaker bio's, and html copies of the talk slides are also included. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

This article by LinuxMall's Greta Durr profiles Kevin Morgan, MontaVista Software's vice president of engineering. Durr quotes liberally from Morgan's whitepaper “Making a Business of Open Source” (see reference, below) and explores Morgan's (and MontaVista's) philosophy with respect to the benefits of open source software, in general, and embedded Linux business models, in specific. (more…)

Neoware's new Linux-based desktop appliance has inspired LinuxWorld writer Rawn Shah to proclaim that “The Great Second Coming for Linux might just be in the realm of embedded devices.” The first coming was, presumably, in the network/Internet server space. Shah writes . . . (more…)

EE Times editor Craig Matsumoto has written an informative article about real-time Linux pioneer Victor Yodaiken, his project (RTLinux), and his new company (FSMLabs). Matsumoto writes . . . (more…)