Apex, NC — (press release excerpt) — EMJ Embedded Systems is pleased to announce the release of white dwarf linux, version 1.1. white dwarf linux version 1.1 upgrades the tiny distributon of Linux that developers are finding is ideal for Internet appliances, process control, medical equipment, industrial automation, wireless applications and testing equipment. (more…)

The Open Group Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum is meeting on Thursday 22 March in Brussels with a special session entitled “21st Century Real-time & Embedded Systems”. Readers of the LinuxDevices.com website are invited to attend as guests of The Open Group. If you are interested in attending please contact Chris Parnell. (more…)

PC Magazine's Cade Metz reports on plans by HP and RealNetworks to produce a Linux-based streaming media appliance for consumer environments. Metz writes . . . (more…)

Hanover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — SSV Embedded Systems is announcing a new PC/104 Embedded Linux Starterkit. The single board computer (SBC) within this kit is the Am486DX5-based CP/486DX2 with 16 MB DRAM and 2 or 4M Flash memory. The SBC also offers 2 serial ports, IDE interface, keyboard and floppy interface, as well as an NE2000-compatible Ethernet 10Base-T port with 10 Mbit/s transfer… (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release excerpt) — Opersys and Lineo today announced the availability of the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) 0.9.4. LTT 0.9.4 is the first complete version of LTT to support the PowerPC processor family running Linux and the Real-Time Applications Interface (RTAI) in addition to the currently supported x86 processor family. (more…)

Following the recent unveiling of the Midori Linux Project by CPU vendor Transmeta, a number of analysts questioned whether Midori Linux might represent a threat to the… (more…)

Foreword

ACPI stands for “Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.” This is a specification developed by Toshiba, Intel, and Microsoft. Besides many other things, ACPI also defines power management — which is why ACPI is often compared to the older Advanced Power Management (APM) support. (more…)

Hannover, Germany — (press release) — Esfia today announced its SDK and Desktop Emulator for Linux PDAs based on Red Hat 7.0 and the KDE KDevelop environment. Individual developers can now design their applications for MIPS/Arm/StrongArm platforms and migrate them into Esfia's RedBlue/Palmlike environment quickly and efficiently. (more…)

Linux provides relatively mature support for Advanced Power Management (APM). However, that support depends on code which must be contained within the system's BIOS for functions such as suspend-to-ram, suspend-to-disk, and system power states. Now that the newer Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard is in common use within the laptop/desktop PC realm, APM support can be expected to… (more…)

The joy of Embedded Linux

Desktop and server users of Linux have long had a wide variety of distributions from which to choose, so you haven't needed to be an expert on the use of GNU tools to install Linux on those kinds of computer. But until about a year ago, if you wanted to embed Linux there wasn't much to do except create your own distribution. (more…)

Transmeta, the company which claims Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) as an employee, has finally unveiled their long awaited Linux distribution — Midori Linux. (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs today announced the new Open RTLinux v3.0 CD. Based on Red Hat 6.2 for x86 processors, it contains the RTLinux hard real-time kernel, the floppy disk-sized MiniRTL (for small footprint embedded applications), and the RTIC Lab real-time graphical interface, as well as a complete Linux distribution. (more…)

Transmeta, the company which claims Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) as an employee, has finally unveiled their long awaited Linux distribution — Midori Linux. (more…)

Embedded developer Jerry Epplin takes a look at Transmeta's newly unveiled “Midori Linux Project” and offers this perspective. Epplin writes . . . (more…)

Erik Andersen, BusyBox maintainer writes . . .

Ok, this took a lot longer then anyone expected but BusyBox 0.50 is now released and a tarball is now sitting on the ftp site waiting for folks to grab it while its hot. This is the announcement I just posted to the web site:

This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. (more…)