A message from LinuxDevices.com founder, Rick Lehrbaum, on the occasion of the second birthday of LinuxDevices.com . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder, Rick Lehrbaum, provides a retrospective on the past two years of the Embedded Linux Market on the occasion of the second birthday of LinuxDevices.com. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Zaltbommel, Netherlands — (press release excerpt) — ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe today announced the main keynote talk of the international Embedded Linux Expo & Conference in Milan, Italy, November 26-29, 2001. The talk, entitled “Measuring Performance in Real-Time Linux”, will be given by Fred Proctor, a prominent scientist and member of the Control Systems Group of the U.S. (more…)

FirstLinux.com has published a review of the new SuSE Linux Professional 7.3 . . .

“This is the 21st century — we sit in the midst of a recessionary period, a time of change, of caution and of uncertainty. With the growth of the internet and the ever-increasing variety and complexity of software applications, both businesses and home users face spiralling costs coupled to limited resources. (more…)

Zurich, Switzerland — esmertec, inc. today announced the release of Version 2.0 of the Jbed Micro Edition CLDC. Jbed Micro Edition CLDC is esmertec's drop-in replacement product for Java 2 Micro Edition CLDC. (more…)

Tuxia Labs Australia has released an upgrade to NxZilla, a set of libraries that allow Mozilla to be used with a NanoX server. Matthew Wlazlo, of the NxZilla project, provided the following description of the new release . (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that GET Engineering Corp., a manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Navy Tactical Data Systems (NTDS) products that are deployed in tactical applications of all classes of U.S. (more…)

The MyLinux Pocket Linux Workstation project has (at least temporarily) been canceled. The completely open source hardware/software project was sponsored by Arizona Cooperative Power LLC, and had reached the stage of accepting advanced purchase orders for beta versions of the device. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat today announced that the Red Hat Embedded Linux Developer Suite (ELDS) is now available. The ELDS is a packaged solution for creating embedded applications and devices. It accelerates development cycles and improves product quality by using Red Hat Linux 7.2 as the common base for the host and target platforms. (more…)

This article by Ganesh Prasad is a sequel to an earlier one that laid out a strategy for taking on the Microsoft .NET challenge. It contains responses to issues raised after the earlier article. Prasad writes . . . (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — this Monday, Century Embedded Technologies will announce the release of the PIXIL Operating Environment (OE) platform for embedded devices running Linux to the open source community. (more…)

This week's Kerneltrap interview is with Keith Owens, an experienced kernel hacker who has long contributed to the Linux kernel. His contributions include updating ksymoops and modutils, both of which he maintains. He also works on kbuild 2.5. Earlier, he built the original Integrated Kernel Debugging patch. He's also working on kdb and XFS. (more…)

Yorktown Heights, NY — (press release excerpt) — IBM Research has released the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM), open source software designed to execute Java programs that are most useful for research on fundamental virtual machine design issues on the IBM developerWorks website. (more…)

CNET's Ian Fried reports that computer maker Gateway has become the latest company to kill off its (Linux-based) Web surfing appliance, officially discontinuing the Connected Touch Pad that it developed with America Online. Fried writes . . . (more…)

Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Gatespace and Jungo Software Technologies have jointly announced a strategic technology alliance to provide an integrated solution for next generation value added services to the home, and SOHO / ROBO (Small Office/Home Office and Remote Office/Branch Office). (more…)