DevelopOnline has announced the addition of two types of PowerPC development systems to its online collaborative development resources — one from IBM and one from Motorola. Here are exerpts from the company's announcements regarding availabity of the new online platforms . . . (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software has established the “MontaVista University” training program for subscribing developers who wish to acquire a deeper understanding and greater development efficiency in the open source Linux domain. The program will launch on January 15, 2001, with classes at subscriber sites and at MontaVista Software's corporate headquarters. (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo today announced Lineo Academix, a scholastic program designed to prepare industry professionals and students for the expanding field of embedded Linux programming. The program consists of three subdivisions — Lineo Academix Collegiate, Lineo Academix Industry, and Lineo Academix Partner — intended to allow academia, industry professionals, and private… (more…)

Over the past several years, Italy has been home to considerable embedded and real-time Linux development. For example, two well known embedded Linux projects spawned on Italian soil are ETLinux, an open source small footprint Embedded Linux developed by PROSA, and (more…)

Trolltech has announced the release of version 1.1 of the Qt Palmtop Environment, a leading GUI software package for embedded Linux released under the GPL. The key feature of the new version is a simple build system and development documentation to allow any developer to add their own applications to the QPE. (more…)

Tokyo, JAPAN — (press release) — EMBLIX, the Japan Embedded Linux Consortium, today announced their first elected officers, the results of an election process that was initiated at Japan's largest embedded systems conference, MST 2000. Today, the consortium also established three working groups designed to initiate discussion within the embedded Linux community about platform and interoperability… (more…)

Lonnie VanZandt, Sr. Systems Engineer of TimeSys Corporation, takes issue with a comment about “disadvantages of real-time Linux” that appeared in a report from the second annual Real-Time Linux Workshop, held recently in Orlando, Florida. VanZandt writes . . . (more…)

A simple model of real-time applications (more…)

This technical whitepaper by Kevin Dankwardt explains the fundamentals of real-time Linux system programming, creates a simple model that illustrates many of the key aspects of real-time system behavior, and explores important issues that impact real-time performance, including task scheduling, preemption in the kernel, interrupt disabling, priority inversion, use of existing kernel facilities, and… (more…)

Grenobles, FRANCE; Design-Reuse Conference — (press release excerpt) — Metaflow Technologies Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.) has introduced Implosion, a system-on-chip (SoC) design platform that uses open source IP for its key hardware and software components. Built around the open AMBA bus architecture, Metaflow's Implosion platform comprises foundation and application specific components that are… (more…)

“The wireless world has not been slow to catch on to the benefits of Linux's modular and open source architecture. Indeed, it is widely predicted that Linux will eventually make huge inroads into the wireless and embedded markets. Of course, many leading developers of open source internet infrastructure, including Red Hat and Lineo, are racing to establish market share in this very market. (more…)

Ottawa, Canada — (press release excerpt) — In response to the thousands of developers who wish to write or port commercial applications for the fast-growing QNX community, QNX Software Systems today launched the new QNX Developer Alliance program. (more…)

Rob Wehrli, project leader of the MyLinux PDA project writes . . .

The Developer Edition of the MyLinux PDA includes some special features that regular, production units do not include. This does not mean that you can not develop code and drivers on a Production Unit, rather, these units were designed primarily for initial bring-up of the Linux Kernel and low-level hardware and device driver… (more…)

Silicon Valley startup Rappore Technologies (San Jose, CA) this week disclosed its initial product roadmap — a suite of comprehensive wireless networking software support for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, spanning the full gamut from embedded devices, to infrastructure transport layers, to desktop/laptop PC connectivity. (more…)

Embedded Linux is starting to penetrate embedded computer applications within the U.S. Military — a phenomenon attributed to the operating system's stability, real-time capabilities, and open source license. A leader in this charge is Rymic Systems, Inc. (Huntsville, AL), whose embedded-Linux based rymicNET Internet devices are currently being evaluated for possible use in a number U.S. (more…)