Redmond, WA — (press release excerpt) — earlier this week, Conversay unveiled the Mobile Conversay Software Development Kit (SDK). Compatible with Linux, Embedded Linux, and Pocket PC platforms, Mobile Conversay SDK allows developers to create speech-driven applications for mobile devices and Internet appliances. (more…)

Murry Shohat, Executive Director of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC), writes . . .

Dear ELC Members — (more…)

LinuxDevices.com has just published an update to the highly popular Embedded Linux “Cool Devices” Quick Reference Guide. Learn all about the latest conquests of Linux in smart devices and embedded systems. Lots of pictures, specs, and “under the hood” details are covered in writeups about more than 30 devices in five categories . (more…)

At the next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, which takes place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas on July 18-19, the forum will explore possibilities for standardizing real-time functions within POSIX Profiles that can unify Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. (more…)

Embedded operating system vendor LynuxWorks, Inc. has decided to abandon it's plan for a near term IPO. LynuxWorks offers an embedded Linux distribution called “BlueCat Linux” and also a proprietary real-time operating system called “LynxOS”. (more…)

Murry Shohat, Executive Director of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC), writes . . .

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[Updated March 22, 2002] Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) unveiled a prototype of a new Linux-powered consumer music appliance at the Tech X NY trade show in New York during the week of June 25, 2001. Although the device — called the HP Digital Entertainment Center — contains more computing power than most desktop PCs, it is narrowly focused on being a “single function appliance” in which… (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) has announced that RTLinux and the RTLinux Development Kit are now available for several PowerPC 860 evaluation boards. Stress tests of the boards show worst case measured periodic jitter times of less than 14 microseconds. (more…)

MontaVista Software announced today that Ericsson AS, the Norwegian affiliate of Ericsson, will be purchasing an undisclosed quantity of product subscriptions to MontaVista¹s Hard Hat Linux (HHL) development platform. (more…)

In last week's column, I asked why BSD-licensed operating systems didn't seem to be attracting as many corporate supporters and programmers as the GNU GPL-based Linux. (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet . . .

Trying to bolster its reputation in the fast-changing Linux world, Compaq Computer will release software designed to make Linux computers better able to withstand crashes or other interruptions. (more…)

Michael P. Deignan of CNET Reviews recently road-tested Metrowerks' CodeWarrior for Linux, Professional Edition 6.0. Deignan writes . . . (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet . . .

The foundation of the open-source movement has just shifted. (more…)

Henry Baltazar and Timothy Dyck of eWEEK report on the surprising results of eWeek Labs' Web server benchmark, in which Red Hat's Tux 2.0 webserver was compared with the venerable Apache. Baltazar and Dyck write . . . (more…)

By Mike Ricciuti; Special to ZDNet . . .

Atlanta, GA — While he has no objection to open-source development efforts, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is concerned about the “Pac-Man-like nature” of the license that governs the distribution of such software. In an interview Tuesday with CNET News.com at the TechEd 2001 conference, Gates observed that Microsoft routinely shares the source code… (more…)