Remember the Z80? Remember Zilog? No, Zilog hasn't announced embedded Linux for the Z80. But what the company has done, however, is unveil an effort to “reinvent” the popular (Z80-derived) Z180 as an embedded Internet processor. How? By releasing a comprehensive embedded Internet software suite that will be bundled with Z180 CPUs at no extra cost. (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) will hold its first Interactive Member Review during the Embedded Systems Conference 2000 later this month. Scheduled for Wednesday, September 27, 2000, the invitation-only lunch event will feature a perspective on the state of embedded Linux by Rick Lehrbaum, Executive Editor of ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com. (more…)

Trolltech has just announced that the upcoming version of Qt/Unix 2.2 has a new license option: the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL option will be added to Trolltech's customary “Q Public License” (QPL), which had not been fully accepted by the open source community. Additionally, as in the past, Trolltech will also sell non-GPL Qt licenses to companies who want to create proprietary (closed… (more…)

Editor: The following statement, which appears on the kde.org website, has been reproduced with permission of the KDE Core Team . . . (more…)

Editor: This IBM announcement comes roughly six weeks after a similar announcement of a $200M IBM Linux initiative in Europe (story). That's nearly half a billion dollars of non-US Linux investment by IBM over the next four years! Here is IBM's current announcement . (more…)

The KDE Core Team has posted an “official” response to the recent avalanche of “. . . and the winner is . . .” attention generated by the launch of the GNOME Foundation at LinuxWorld (story). The KDE Core Team writes . . . (more…)