Peter Galli, of eWEEK, reports on the latest delays in the release of Linux kernel version 2.4. Galli writes . . . (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release) — Lineo today announced the appointment of Richard Larsen as the senior vice president of Lineo's worldwide sales operations. Effective immediately, Larsen assumes responsibility for the company's overall sales strategy to corporate accounts, OEMs, resellers, systems integrators, service providers and end users. (more…)

Nicholas Petreley, the founding editor of LinuxWorld, has published an editorial that is highly critical of the current efforts by the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project. The LSB, observes Petreley, is doomed to irrelevance unless it can establish a more aggressive leadership and agenda. Petreley writes . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — STMicroelectronics rolled out three new chips in its STPC family of highly integrated x86 PC-compatible system-on-chip (SOC) devices at the Embedded Microprocessor Forum earlier this week. The 0.25µ fabrication technology allows the three devices to offer high integration, low power consumption, and low cost. (more…)

Never underestimate Microsoft, especially when it comes to anything involving Linux. Take its recent $135 million bailout of struggling Canadian software maker Corel. An SEC filing says Corel could port .Net to Linux. And — surprise — Microsoft was threatening to sue Corel, not vice versa. Mary Jo Foley, of ZDNet News, writes . . . (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — Specialized Systems Consultants (SSC), the publisher of Linux Journal, has announced the launch of a magazine focusing on the use of Open Source software and Linux in embedded technologies. The new print publication, titled Embedded Linux Journal, will debut in January 2001. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation will present two Real-Time and Quality of Service Technology (QoS) workshops for the public in November and December. The workshops, previously presented only to government groups and large corporations, will be in San Francisco and Philadelphia. (more…)

Names convey meanings; our choice of names determines the meaning of what we say. An inappropriate name gives people the wrong idea. A rose by any name would smell as sweet — but if you call it a pen, people will be rather disappointed when they try to write with it. And if you call pens “roses,” people may not realize what they are good for. (more…)

The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0 RC2, the second and (barring any unforeseen problems) final release candidate for Kopernicus (KDE 2.0), KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. The KDE team has previously released five Beta versions — the first on May 10 of this year — publicly; the sole prior release candidate was released internally only. (more…)

Taipei, TAIWAN — (press release excerpt) — Core logic and graphics chipset supplier SiS today announced that its integrated-chipset based PC architecture platform has accomplished an important milestone: it has become the first BIOS-free, diskless, single-flash-device PC architecture platform in the world. (more…)

Denver, CO — (press release excerpt) — Jabber.com today announced that the Jabber Open Source Project has surpassed 50 active sub-projects, all focused on extending functionality of the Jabber real-time XML instant messaging platform. The accelerated growth is attributed to increased interest in Jabber within the open source development community, along with an increase in the number of companies who… (more…)

Introduction

Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina with a famous quote: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Similarly: reliable real-time systems are all alike; every unreliable real-time system is unreliable in its own way. (more…)

Michelle Head, editor of LinuxNews, interviewed some folks at the Jim Henson Creature Shop about their use of Linux in the Henson Performance Control System (HPCS) that they are developing. It seems the Creature Shop is funding the development of some interesting GUI and real-time Linux technologies which will, of course, end up being contributed back to the open source software pool. (more…)

ZDNet's Evan Leibovitch takes a look at Red Hat's new version 7 distribution, and comments that it is so forward-looking that it doesn't play nicely with the other distributions out there — or even older versions of Red Hat, for that matter. Leibovitch writes . . . (more…)

Want to win a free development board with the Axis ETRAX system-on-chip and a full port of embedded Linux? Axis has announced a contest which will award five of their “developer boards” to “the five best, most creative, weirdest, or coolest [project] suggestions”. By the way, be sure to read the Contest FAQ, below — it's rather entertaining ;) (more…)