Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Linux NetworX, a specialist in large-scale Linux clustering solutions, announced today that it has developed LinuxBIOS for the Alpha platform. Linux NetworX will present the development and all of its implications at the Extreme Linux Developer's Forum, Feb. 21-23 in Santa Fe, NM. (more…)

In this interview, LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum speaks with Karim Yaghmour, the founder of Adeos, a new open source project to develop an “Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems”. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

This whitepaper by Phil Verghese, CTO of RidgeRun, takes a close look at the growing trend of combining Embedded Linux with digital signal processors (DSPs) in smart devices and embedded systems used in a wide range of consumer and commercial applications. Verghese writes . . . (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Wipro Technologies has announced a suite of ready-to-use hardware and software products and services for the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard. The comprehensive “intellectual property” (IP) offering contains all the technology needed to rapidly integrate Bluetooth into new product designs. (more…)

In this article, Rick Lehrbaum describes a demo he observed at LinuxWorld in New York, where LynuxWorks previewed a new capability of the company's proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS), LynxOS — Linux “application binary interface” (ABI) compatibility. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

This whitepaper by Pascal Bauermeister and Olivier Bornet describes a new open source Java-like platform called “Waba” that is currently being ported to Linux. The Waba VM is well suited for use in Linux-based embedded and mobile devices, requiring just 40KB on an M68K. Bauermeister and Bornet write . . . (more…)

Orange County, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic, Inc. today announced a series of upcoming events in Asia which are designed to give Linux developers and users a vision of the real-time embedded operating system possibilities available through REDICE-Linux. The events, to be held in Taiwan, Singapore, Beijing, and Tokyo between February 21 and March 2, 2001, will showcase REDSonic's real-time… (more…)

John G. Spooner of ZDNet News reports that Transmeta plans to release its version of Linux for Internet appliances and other devices as early as next week so that developers can begin testing it. Spooner writes . . . (more…)

Waba is a programming platform for small devices. Waba defines a language, a virtual machine (VM), a class file format, and a set of foundation classes. Legally speaking, Waba is not Java. Also, the foundation classes are simplified in comparison to the standard Java classes, and the VM has certain limitations. (more…)

In the early days of the IBM PC era, when you wanted to know if a system was “IBM PC compatible”, you'd try running Lotus Flight Simulator on it. That program exercised the system's hardware and software so thoroughly, and took enough liberties with undocumented and inadvisable functions (like writing directly to video RAM), that if Flight Simulator ran on the system you could pretty much count on it… (more…)

Brazil's OLinux website has published an interview with LinuxDevices.com founder, Rick Lehrbaum. OLinux asks Lehrbaum about the background of LinuxDevices.com and for some perspective on the Embedded Linux market. Topics covered include . . .

• What was the group behind LinuxDevices.com initially? What were the main objectives?
• How is Embedded Linux doing? Do you think Embedded Linux will… (more…)

Andrew Josey of the Open Group submitted this summary of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum held in San Jose, CA in February 2001. Josey writes . . . (more…)

Whether you are interested in real-time Linux or not, the RTLinux patent issue is both interesting and important. As open source (“free”) software grows in importance, considerations of patents and mixed copyrights will become increasingly significant to individuals and companies engaged in software development. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — PC Engines, a developer of custom embedded PC hardware and firmware, today published the source code for its tinyBIOS embedded PC BIOS core. tinyBIOS was designed from the ground up for embedded PC applications such as network appliances. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Wireless/Portable Symposium — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) and Parthus Technologies announced today that SMA has licensed Parthus' InfoStream mobile computing platform. Future SMA system-on-chip (SOC) products incorporating InfoStream will target mobile computing devices with the equivalent processing capability of a desktop PC, but with the… (more…)