Device overview

The Sony SNT-V304 Video Network Station is the result of a cooperative development between Sony Corporation and Axis Communications Group. The compact device, which contains an embedded Linux operating system running on an Axis ETRAX system-on-chip processor, combined with video processing technologies developed by Axis, transmits images generated by analog video cameras to… (more…)

Transmeta Corp., well known as the employer of Linux-creator Linus Torvalds, used the occasion of COMDEX 2000 (Las Vegas, NV) to show off a broad array of new devices containing the company's recently introduced Crusoe processor. In all, the company showcased eleven customer applications — including five notebook computers, five webpad devices, and one Internet server appliance. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com profiles Sony's new embedded Linux based remote video image acquisition system. The device, which contains an embedded computer based on an Axis ETRAX 100 system-on-chip processor, runs uClinux as its embedded operating system and uses TCP/IP and other standard networking protocols to transfer digital video images anywhere on the web. (more…)

COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software, Inc. today debuted the company's thin client solutions for web appliances, PDA/PADs, and other consumer and edge applications. In their booth at the new COMDEX Linux Pavilion (Booth No. P537C), MontaVista is demonstrating Hard Hat Linux for thin clients across a range of consumer-oriented devices, including Compaq's StrongARM-based… (more…)

COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. today announced the preview of Embedix SDK 1.2-J being shown at COMDEX Fall 2000, the next release of the Japanese software development kit for embedded developers and device manufacturers. Embedix SDK 1.2-J integrates support with cross-compilations, full support for Hitachi SuperH 3 and 4 RISC processors, and an integrated development… (more…)

Henry Kingman, producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, reviews the latest release of Eazel's Nautilus “graphical shell.” Kingman observes that the latest preview release is feature-complete, but lacks performance optimizations and multi-platform support. Kingman writes . . . (more…)

Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet News reports that on Wednesday at Comdex/Fall '00, the backers of the KDE Linux desktop environment are expected to band together and form a corporate-backed group to push KDE as a viable alternative to GNOME. The move echoes a similar effort in support of GNOME at LinuxWorld, this past August. Foley writes . . . (more…)

Greenbelt, MD — (press release excerpt) — Empress Software today announced that the Empress Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is now available for the QNX Neutrino RTOS, the embedded operating system that forms the core of the new QNX realtime platform. Empress on QNX Neutrino delivers powerful performance, enabling the creative design of scalable, reliable, deterministic applications. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum takes a look at recent developments in both PDAs based on Linux, and Linux distro's for PDAs. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Orange County, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic today announced the release of RED-Probe, a real-time system event viewer and monitoring tool for REDICE-Linux. RED-Probe is a graphical, real-time, monitoring and profiling tool and an integral component of the REDICE-Linux development system. (more…)

uCommon is a new project consisting of what will be a series of somewhat related free software packages that are being developed primarily for use as network services for tiny footprint embedded Linux kernel based systems. These packages will be licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL) and many will be telephony related. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) executive director, Murry Shohat, is headed to Japan to brief the 50+ members of EMBLIX (Japan's consortium for embedded Linux) on the mission of the ELC. Shohat is reciprocating for the well-received presentation by EMBLIX Vice President John Cheuck at the ELC's Embedded Systems Conference Member Luncheon. (more…)

Mountain View, CA — (press release) — Trolltech is proud to present the release of Qt/Embedded, version 2.2.2. For the first time, Qt/Embedded is released under both a commercial and an open source license, the GPL (GNU General Public License). Also released today is the Qt Palmtop Environment, which is the first Personal Information Management (PIM) package for embedded Linux released under the GPL. (more…)

In this “guest column,” Karim Yaghmour, maintainer of the open-source Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) project, offers a perspective on some of his experiences and insights gained over the past two years of managing an important free software project. Yaghmour also reviews the history of the development of the LTT and discusses current status and future plans for the project. (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release) — Century Software Embedded Technologies today announced an enhanced version of it's Microwindows-based applications toolkit and PDA operating environment for the new Compaq iPAQ handheld computer. The commercially supported product provides a fully functional screentop, web browser, terminal emulator, popup keyboard and handwriting recognition as the basis for… (more…)