Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software today launched Opera 5.0 for Linux, providing the Linux community with a fast, full-featured and stable Web browser for the first time. Opera 5 for Linux offers an Internet experience for the Linux platform as hassle-free as on Windows. (more…)

Oslo — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software today announced that IBM has chose Opera 5.0 for QNX for their NetVista Internet Appliance. This is Opera's first major contract for its newly developed Opera for QNX browser, and another confirmation that the industry's largest players are joining forces with Opera. (more…)

Bloomfield, NJ — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA today announced the release of a professional development toolkit, TUXIA Synthesis Environment (TSE) 3.0, to enable easy, full-scale customization of TUXIA's TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology), a suite of embedded Linux software for Internet appliances and thin client devices. (more…)

Fort Lauderdale, FL — (press release excerpt) — Metro Link announced today a licensing agreement with Lineo, Inc. under which Lineo will provide their customers with Metro Link's new Micro-X Complete! Software Development Kit (SDK) for Lineo's Embedix SDK embedded Linux based development tool chain. (more…)

Interactive Week editor Charles Babcock reports on the growing trend of using open source software within mainstream Corporate America. Babcock writes . . . (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — frontpath, Inc. today announced that it has begun shipping and volume production of its [Linux-based] premier wireless web device, the ProGear. Targeted to broadband-enabled vertical market segments including hospitality, education and healthcare, ProGear is a fully… (more…)

Helsinki, Finland — (press release excerpt) — Nokia today announced the launch of a new website, www.ostdev.net, dedicated to supporting developers in the open source community as well as the promotion of collaborative development of the Open Standards Terminal (OST). (more…)

Wolfgang Denk submitted the following announcement regarding new RTAI and RTLinux support for smaller PowerPC processors . . . (more…)

The following Embedded Linux related announcement was recently found on CodeWeavers' website . . . (more…)

Armonk, NY — (press release excerpt) — IBM today announced a new Web portal to serve its business partners, employees, and members of the Linux community. The launch of www.ibm.com/linux provides users access to the latest news; the ability to download the latest Linux tools; and links to Linux content across the breadth of the ibm.com Web… (more…)

Santa Cruz, CA — (press release excerpt) — Tarantella, Inc., today launched a native code component designed for embedding in Linux based Internet appliances and network devices. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Cahners MicroDesign Resources (MDR) announced today that it is expanding this year's Embedded Processor Forum to three days of first public disclosures of more than 30 new microprocessors, DSPs, and related embedded technologies, with a full day to be devoted to new network processor chips. (more…)

Cambridge, England — (press release excerpt) — Going beyond their previous announcement, Aleph One Ltd of Cambridge, England and Remote 12 Systems Ltd of London, England are now able to supply both LART and KSB boards, plus a User Guide, software, and cables. Previously, only the main LART board and its associated cables, software, and documentation were offered. (more…)

Attention all euro-penguinistas!

The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) is forming a European chapter of the ELC, to be called the “ELC-Europe”. An organizational meeting will be held next month (either June 12 or June 19) in Augsberg, Germany for the purpose of kicking off the new group. (more…)

Bill Kendrick met with Brad LaRonde, CEO of Linux PDA maker Agenda Computing, earlier this week and submitted this brief update on LaRonde's upcoming speaking appearances at Linux Users Groups and technical conferences . . . (more…)