As the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA platform requires components from multiple sources to create a working developer environment, Jason Perlow and Chris Larson have created a “cheat sheet” to help you get going quickly in developing apps for the Zaurus. Perlow and Larson write . . . (more…)

Got a handle on threads? Systems-programming guru Dr. Edward G. Bradford unravels the mysteries surrounding process and thread management in Linux and Windows, in this online article at IBM's developerWorks website. This column focuses on socket programming and performance within a single system. (more…)

With the 2.4 release of Linux come many new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. These filesystems sound cool, but what exactly can they do, what are they good at, and exactly how do you go about safely using them in a production Linux environment? This article answers these questions by showing you how to set up these new advanced filesystems under Linux 2.4. (more…)

Wolfgang Denk submitted the following announcement regarding newly released RTAI support for Motorola and IBM PowerPC embedded processors . . . (more…)

Kevin Dankwardt sets out to find out how many implementations of Embedded Linux are available for free — as in “free beer”. Dankwardt writes . . . (more…)

Are your applications running on Linux today? If not, this paper is intended to give you hints and tips and describes a roadmap on how you can port applications to Linux. It is based on the experiences of software engineers from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and from the worldwide IBM labs, who have been involved in many projects porting applications to Linux. (more…)

This article from the March 2002 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal is about developing Linux-based applications for handheld devices using the Trolltech's C++ GUI Qt/Embedded toolkit. Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and Steffen Hansen write . . . (more…)

A Bangalore, India based development company perceived an opportunity between the high-end, high-cost Pocket PC PDAs and the low-end, low-cost Palm PDAs, and created a new PDA called “Kaii” to fill that gap. (more…)

Infomart saw an opening between the high-end high-cost Pocket PC PDAs, and the low-end low-cost Palm PDAs, and created a new PDA called “Kaii” to fill that gap. “We wanted to make a PDA with the features of high-end PDAs, but at an affordable cost,” said Devesh R. Agarwal, managing director of the Bangalore, India based development company. (more…)

Delta, BC — (press release excerpt) — Technical Solutions Inc. (Techsol) today announced its patent-pending, low-cost, high-performance, Medallion computer modules. The Medallion computer modules, with bundled software, are designed to enable rapid development of complete embedded solutions for non-PC platforms, mobile devices, and internet appliances. (more…)

In a fit of unrestrained recklessness, Jay Staton is smitten by an adventurous urge and decides to try installing Linux on his Handspring Visor PDA. Staton writes . . . (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. and SuperH, Inc. today announced that they are working together on a compiler for the new 64 bit SuperH SH-5 processor. The Red Hat GNUPro compiler is a commercial software development suite of tools built around the open source GNU standard. (more…)

Monrovia, CA — (press release excerpt) — Toris Martin, software technical engineer at ParaSoft, will address the February 19 Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) Forum on the future and outlook of embedded Linux development. The BALUG Forum takes place at 7 p.m. at the Four Seas Hotel in Chinatown, San Francisco. (more…)

There are two types of people in the world: people who use Linux and people who don't, and rarely the twain shall meet. Until a few days ago, I was with the latter group of the twain. That is, until I thought it would be a good idea to throw caution to the wind and try to install Linux on my innocent Handspring Visor. (more…)

Announced today on the Zaurus mailing lists . . .

“Sharp is excited to announce a new opportunity for you to sell your [Zaurus SL-5000D/SL-5500 PDA] software! Through a partnership with the leading handheld and wireless software publisher, Handango, Sharp will provide an online software store accessible to customers via the Sharp Web site. (more…)