San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Open Group announced completion of the joint revision to POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. The new standard is now available for download, in keeping with The Open Group's policy of open and free access to its standards. (more…)

TheKompany.com has announced a family of Linux “products for the embedded world” which support the Sharp Zaurus 5x series. The following products are either available now or coming soon . . .

• tkcExplorer — an enhanced file manager
• tkcEditor — a serious editor that provides many tools that are convenient for both programmers or end users
• tkcJabber — an… (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — In a move that will allow true interoperability between Linux distributions and better internationalization capabilities, the Free Standards Group has released Linux Standard Base (LSB) 1.1 and Li18nux 1.0. LSB enhances existing compatibility among Linux distributions and will enable software applications to run on any compliant Linux-based operating… (more…)

Upper Saddle River, NJ — (press release excerpt) — Technical book publisher Prentice Hall and Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) have announced the creation of The Bruce Perens' Open Source Series of books. The series will be created and edited by Bruce Perens, a founding father of the open source community, and will focus on Linux and a broad variety of Open Source topics including BSD, Open Source… (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — In her keynote address here, Hewlett-Packard Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina declared this the breakout year for Linux, the open source technology that is finding favor with big businesses for its flexibility and cost-effectiveness. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. announced today that it is set to release Linux for PlayStation 2 (Release 1.0), targeted toward the Linux development community in North America. Designed as a hobbyist development environment, users can not only run the wide variety of computer applications written for the Linux operating system, but also create… (more…)

The 22-member non-profit Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) today announced a pair of technical working groups aimed at enhancing the suitability of Linux for telecommunications and datacenter infrastructure applications. The two groups, called the Carrier Grade Linux Working Group and the Data Center Linux Working Group, will provide “vision and guidance” to “encourage the development of whatever… (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced that their completed Reference Implementation of the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) has been accepted under the Java Community Process (JCP) and is now available for free download at the TimeSys website, here. (more…)

Stephen Shankland of CNET reports that IBM believes it has already nearly recouped the $1 billion it claims to have invested in Linux during 2001. Shankland writes . . . ” (more…)

[Updated Jan. 29, 2002] At this week's LinuxWorld in New York, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) unveiled a range of new Linux-based products and services targeting the Internet infrastructure, telecommunications, and network equipment provider markets. These include a family of Linux-based “carrier grade” servers and a developer's kit for HP Opencall software. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Today, eclipse.org made a fully functional C and C++ Integrated Development Environment available for evaluation with the eclipse platform on Linux workstations. The C/C++ tools, which complement existing Java language support, make the eclipse platform the first full function, tightly integrated, multi-language tools environment available as open source. (more…)

New York and Paris; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software today announced MontaVista Linux 2.1, the next generation of the company's classic embedded operating platform. The feature-rich release enables an even broader range of embedded applications, providing a standard platform for designs in communications infrastructure, networking, consumer electronics, instrumentation and… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Sun Microsystems, Inc. has signed an agreement with Lineo, Inc. to adapt and support Lineo's embedded Linux operating system products to run on UltraSPARC IIe-processor based end user-developed custom hardware. Lineo is working to create a full-featured UltraSPARC IIe processor-focused software development kit complete with the Lineo Embedix operating system. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — Recent analysis by Venture Development Corporation (VDC) confirms what telecommunications pundits have prophesized for years — network convergence is upon us. However, the research also suggests that the transition to packet telephony will be a lengthy and perpetual one. (more…)

Sharp's new Linux-based Zaurus PDA is expected to begin hitting retail shelves this March for a list price $549, a company source told LinuxDevices.com. The model name will be “Zaurus SL-5500”, and it will include 64MB of RAM memory and 16MB of built-in Flash storage memory (in contrast to pre-production devices… (more…)