Kansas City, MO — (press release) — Arcom has announced a development kit for Embedded Linux that includes a working configuration of the operating system and all necessary drivers. The new SBC-MediaGX dev kit saves time and money by eliminating the need for the embedded systems developer to create their own flavor of Embedded Linux and purchase drivers from a third-party supplier. (more…)

At the Microprocessor Forum today, STMicroelectronics unveiled the next generation of its highly integrated “STPC” family of x86 PC-compatible System-on-Chip (SOC) devices. Known as the STPC Galaxy, the new family will achieve both higher integration and higher performance, along with lower power dissipation, relative to the latest products in the STPC SOC family. (more…)

Coventive Technologies offers a family of embedded Linux based software solutions that supports a broad range of international languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese. (more…)

Montclair, NJ; York, ENGLAND – Vita Nuova today announced the opening of its first office in the United States. The Montclair, NJ, location will serve as a gateway to the U.S. market, enabling Vita Nuova to better service its growing user base in the United States, Canada and worldwide. (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release) — Lineo today announced the release of BusyBox 0.47, an upgrade to the so-called “Swiss army knife” of freely available open source embedded Linux utilities and tools. BusyBox 0.47 makes customizing embedded systems convenient and demonstrates the possibility of putting open source Linux software on the smallest electronic devices. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Rise Technology Company (Rise) today demonstrated the ultra low power feature of Rise's iDragon mP6 processor core. As the industry's lowest power consuming and best multimedia performing X86 processor core, Rise iDragon mP6 processor can playback VCD movie titles with only a single off-the-shelf AA battery. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Coventive Technologies, one of Asia's leading open source software providers, announced today that it is pursuing its international vision by establishing a new organization to serve North American customers and partners. Coventive's US office will focus on developing and expanding strategic business alliances with North American companies in the areas of open… (more…)

This technical whitepaper by Kevin Dankwardt goes into considerable detail on some of the alternative approaches to adding real-time capabilities to Linux. Dankwardt covers both “internal” Linux enhancements (such as scheduling improvements) and external enhancements (such as RTLinux and RTAI), and provides a comparison summary that indicates that no single product offers an all-inclusive set of real-time… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce our new “backend news feed.” It's the world's first up-to-the-minute Embedded Linux Headlines news feed. Now, you can easily have your website designer incorporate our headlines directly into a prominent location on your website. Keep your site's visitors “well fed” with the latest Embedded Linux news! (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat has assisted Wincor Nixdorf in bringing to market the Nixdorf BEETLE Point-of-Sale systems based on Embedded Linux. The BEETLE comes to market amidst
growing competition in the retail sector, which has given rise to a demand for new IT solutions, both in the central office and in stores. (more…)

Oslo, NORWAY — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software today released a Beta version of Opera 4.0 for Linux, bringing the best browser alternative for Linux one step closer to a final release. Bringing the browser from Technical Preview, to Beta, means that the Internet community now have the opportunity to interact and assist Opera in providing Linux users with the best possible Internet experience. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation has announced enhancements to its TimeSys Linux/RT operating system distribution that add guaranteed real-time and Quality of Service (QoS) networking support. The new QoS networking support comes in addition to other real-time features within the TimeSys Linux/RT operating system.

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This guide provides summaries and links of LinuxDevices stories about Linux-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs), ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), and tablets. Note that in many cases there is a fine line between these devices and smaller handhelds, which may be found in our Linux PDAs, PMPs, PNDs, and other Handhelds showcase. (more…)

Blockbuster 2Wire MediaPoint — Nov. 26, 2008 — This Blockbuster-branded IP set-top box and media player is built by 2Wire, and runs Linux on a MIPS-based Broadcom chipset. (more…)

(announcement) — ACTIVE Exhibitions and Ascensit are sponsoring a pair of 2-day technical workshops on Real-Time & Embedded Linux, presented by Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing. The Netherlands workshop takes place during the Applied Computing Developers' Conference, on November 7 and 8 in Maastricht (Netherlands). (more…)