Las Vegas, NV; Network-Interop — (press release excerpt) — QNX Software Systems and IP Infusion today announced an alliance that will enable networking OEMs to achieve unprecedented scalability and capacity in their products. The two companies have already begun to collaborate on integrating the ZebOS Advanced Routing Suite with the QNX real-time OS. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. is sponsoring four half-day seminars for embedded software developers in California, the Midwest and Canada. The seminars, entitled “Moving from a Proprietary RTOS to Embedded Linux,” will be held at the Santa Clara Hilton in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, May 24; at the Irvine Hilton in Irvine, Calif., on Thursday, May 31; in Chicago… (more…)

In this LinuxDevices.com device profile, Rick Lehrbaum describes the Linux-based Servio Personal Server, the initial product from Memora, a startup company whose goal is to create a new category of home appliance: the “personal server.” Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

In response to statements delivered by Craig Mundie, Senior VP of Microsoft, to the Stern School of Business students at New York University, LynuxWorks has issued the following statement . . . (more…)

Apex, NC — (press release excerpt) — Embedded development just got easier with the introduction of the new low power MZ104 from Tri-M systems and EMJ Embedded. The MZ104 is a 586 133MHz PC/104 single board computer (SBC) with extremely low power consumption. Its design provides for ease of integration and reliability, and it is ideally suited to applications where low power is required for long battery… (more…)

Axis Communications has just released its version of Linux 2.4 for developers designing systems based on the company's newest system-on-chip (SOC) processor, the ETRAX 100LX. The new OS version includes all the standard enhancements resulting from the Linux 2.4 kernel; it also offers full support for new features within the ETRAX 100LX, such as the internal MMU (memory management unit) and USB ports. (more…)

Not unexpectedly, the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) today joined the chorus of reactions to Microsoft's recent critique of open source software. Here is the text of the ELC announcement . . . (more…)

For the third year, LogOn Technology Transfer will be organizing a series of Linux events throughout Europe called [email protected] These 1-day, city-to-city events, will take place in several European venues in 2001:

[email protected] Oslo May 9, 2001
[email protected] Stockholm May 10, 2001
[email protected] Helsinki May 11, 2001
[email protected] Frankfurt May 15, 2001
[email protected] Zurich May 16, 2001
[email protected]… (more…)

ZDNet columnist Stephan Somogyi wrote this lengthy and insightful commentary about the recent attack by Microsoft on open source software . . . (more…)

By Richard Shim; special to ZDNet . . .

Linux is finding another inroad into the computing world besides PCs and servers. (more…)

Lineo, Inc. is delivering a series of technical courses on embedded Linux development at its recently-opened Embedded Systems Center in San Mateo, CA. Three courses will be delivered: Embedded Linux Programming with uClinux, Real-Time Programming in a Linux Environment, and Embedded Linux Programming with the Embedix SDK. (more…)

Red Hat, Inc. today announced Red Hat TechWorld, a technical conference aimed at bringing Red Hat customers and open source developers and advocates together for a variety of educational and technical tracks. The first of these global events will be held at the Brussels Expo, in Brussels, Belgium on September 17 and 18, 2001. (more…)

In this essay, Bruce Perens, senior advisor for Hewlett-Packard and the primary author of the Open Source Definition, offers a perspective on software patents, the fundamental problems with them, and the hazard that they present to Free Software development. Also included, is a discussion on the upcoming summit meeting Perens has called on Free Software and The Law. (more…)

In response to statements delivered by Craig Mundie, Senior VP of Microsoft, to the Stern School of Business students at New York University, Alan Cox, one of the main developers of the Linux kernel, issued the following statement . . . (more…)

SiliconValey.com's Dan Gilmore asked Linus Torvalds what he thought of Microsoft VP Craig Mundie's speech in which he attacked open source. Torvalds replied . . . (more…)