The RTAI project has released Version 1.6 for Linux 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. Beside some minor fixes, it contains:

• Improvements in the dynamic memory manager.
• POSIX conditional variables timed waits.
• Task stack checking function.
• 8259 PIC top priority setting. (more…)

Kenneth J. Hendrickson, who attended the 21st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium held in Florida on November 27-28, 2000, has written an informative report about what took place at the conference. Hendrickson's report is divided into the following sections:

• Background Information
• How Real-Time Linux Works
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Comments on the Papers
• Comments on… (more…)

Foreword: This article is the introduction to a new LinuxDevices.com series by Jerry Epplin that will explore the history, status, alternative architectures, and future developments of Linux on PDAs and handheld devices. (more…)

This article is the introduction to an exciting new LinuxDevices.com series by Jerry Epplin that will explore the history, status, alternative architectures, and future developments of Linux on PDAs and handheld devices. Epplin kicks off the series with an overview of the main features and architectures of each of these three currently available distributions: Century Software's Microwindows PDA… (more…)

Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com staff writer, reports that Hitachi has begun shipping an Internet appliance that contains a Crusoe processor from Transmeta. Kanellos writes . . . (more…)

Next time you're on a transoceanic flight, be sure to pay close attention when the flight attendants come around selling duty free merchandise. That handheld point-of-sale terminal which is used to enter your order and print your receipt may well contain Embedded Linux. Here's why: a Padova, Italy based manufacturer recently introduced a new Linux-based rugged handheld computer which is designed to meet… (more…)

ZDNet [email protected] Partner's David Raikow offers a few simple precautions can eliminate a host of Linux security threats. Raikow writes . . . (more…)

Next time you're on a transoceanic flight, be sure to pay close attention when the flight attendants come around selling duty free merchandise. That handheld point-of-sale terminal which is used to enter your order and print your receipt may well contain Embedded Linux. Here's why: a Padova, Italy based manufacturer recently introduced a new Linux-based rugged handheld computer which is designed to meet… (more…)

The following comment on the recently demonstrated IMT-2000 Linux-based combination smartphone and PDA (story) has been issued by Trolltech . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — NetClue Corporation announced today a new release of the Clue WBC browser. Some of the new features include proxy server and image file format support. The cost effective pure Java browser is extremely compact, modular in design, and platform independent. (more…)

Here's an announcement from the KDE website about a port of Konquerer, the KDE browser, onto Qt/Embedded, the embedded version of the Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit on which KDE is based. Quoting from the announcement . . . (more…)

MontaVista Software today delivered on a promise made last July, to offer a quick and easy way to convert embedded applications designed for Wind River's VxWorks operating system into embedded Linux applications. (more…)

Robert Schwebel, producer of Linux-Automation.com, provided this report about growing Linux momentum in Germany's industrial automation industry, as evidenced by the recent SPS/IPC/DRIVES Trade Fair held in Nuernberg, Germany. Schwebel writes . . . (more…)

Last June, Bluepoint Linux Software announced that Yongming Wei, founder of the open source MiniGUI project, had joined the company's Beijing R&D center as its technology director. (more…)

News.com's Paul Festa observes that at the same time Netscape Communications is coming heavy criticism that it released its latest browser prematurely, competition in the browser space is starting to heat up. Festa writes . . (more…)