Santa Rosa, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) today announced the results of its annual board of director's election. The ELC's 120+ members voted from a field of 16, electing seven. The board is responsible for steering the organization's recent move into platform standardization and an aggressive promotional mission throughout the world. (more…)

Based on the high level of interest in small systems and single-board computers (SBCs) for use as platforms in Linux-based projects & products, LinuxDevices.com has created a new discussion forum area devoted to these two closely related topics. (more…)

Fort Lauderdale, FL — (press release excerpt) — Metro Link today announced the release of Micro-X for the Sony PlayStation 2. With the PlayStation 2 becoming a new consumer standard for multimedia entertainment, Metro Link has jumped ahead of the market by providing its small footprint X server for the PlayStation 2. (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet News . . .

The National Science Foundation has awarded contracts worth $53 million to build a grid that connects supercomputer clusters across the country into a single large computing resource called the Distributed Terascale Facility. (more…)

The IBM alphaWorks team treated LinuxDevices.com to a sneak preview today of a technology demonstration that will be unveiled publicly next week at IBM's Solutions Developer Conference in San Francisco, and later this month at LinuxWorld (also in San Francisco) (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum gives his impressions of the world's first book on the subject of using Linux in embedded systems and smart devices: John Lombardo's Embedded Linux, published by New Riders press (ISBN: 073570998X). Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

The Embedded Linux Journal has announced that the first round of their “NIC contest” is over, and NIC systems are being sent to the twenty lucky finalists. This second annual design contest is based on projects using the New Internet Computer… (more…)

Earlier this week, Lineo announced that they have licensed a real-time technology patent from RTLinux creator Victor Yodaiken to allow Lineo “to provide OEM customers with high performance, real-time embedded solutions integrating FSM's patented techniques of adding real-time support with the Lineo Embedix embedded… (more…)

By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK . . .

Lineo, maker of the Linux-based embedded operating system Embedix, said this week that it had licensed patented technology from FSMLabs, the creator of RTLinux. (more…)

In response to recent attacks on Open Source Software from proprietary software vendors, Lineo has announced a new tool which is intended to assist developers in identifying the licenses within system software components. The tool is said to identify up to 40 different software licenses including GPL, LGPL, BSD, Artistic, and many others. (more…)

Updated Feb. 22, 2002 Waltham, MA — (press release excerpt) — Wireless Networks Inc. today announced that NetSilicon's NET+Works device networking platform is providing the connectivity for Wireless Networks' (more…)

McAfee.com today announced that they have been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a method of delivering software as a Web service. United States Patent 6,266,774 for the “Method and system for securing, managing or optimizing a personal computer” was issued on July 24, 2001. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Khronos Group, a consortium of digital media and graphics industry leaders, today announced that the OpenML 1.0 specification has been unanimously ratified and is now publicly available. OpenML, a software environment that is complementary to the peer OpenGL API,… (more…)

[Updated Aug. 7, 2001; 6:15 pm PDT] MP3.com has selected Embedded Linux vendor Lineo Inc. to supply its next-generation Business Music Media Server (BMMS) after evaluating the solutions of 12 different supplier candidates. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Point-of-sale (POS) system manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf Inc. today announced plans to offer Linux as a platform for migrating DOS-based POS systems to full-function, next-generation POS solutions. The migration offering marks another step in Wincor Nixdorf's ongoing commitment to assist retailers in building modern POS solutions based on the Red Hat Linux platform. (more…)