From the Gtk# mailing list . . .

Announcing the first public release of Gtk#, codenamed 'Buttonhook'. (more…)

Sebastopol, CA — (press releae excerpt) — Registration has just opened for the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, one of the most anticipated annual technical
conferences for the open source community. Creators, practitioners, and hackers come together once again at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina in sunny San Diego, California, July 22-26, 2002. (more…)

When Linux NetworX announced a new appliance-like device that is used for managing rack-mounted Linux clusters, called the ICE Box, LinuxDevices.com naturally wanted to crack open the ICE Box's door to find out what's inside. In this article, Linux NetworX Cluster Tools product manager Jason Lowry opens up the ICE Box and takes you on a tour of its internal hardware and software, explaining what it does… (more…)

Back in November of 2000, Jim Thompson, Kem McClelland, Brad Martin, and Jamie Thompson started brainstorming about the idea creating a company to specialize on the emerging market for publicly accessible wireless access points. They reasoned that there would soon be a significant opportunity to supply devices to public access “hot-spot” providers, wireless ISP/infrastructure providers (WISPs), and… (more…)

Reviewing the new Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for ZDNet, Colin Duwe examines the benefits of Linux in the device. Proclaiming the new PDA a 'budding competitor' Duwe writes . . . (more…)

In this online article from Linux Journal, Ralph Krause explains how to develop a temperature conversion application program that demonstrates some of the features of using GTK+ and the Free Pascal compiler. Krause writes . . . (more…)

[Updated 1:00pm PDT] — (press release excerpt) — theKompany and Xiph.org have teamed up to bring Ogg Vorbis to the Sharp Zaurus. The result of this collaboration is the newly released tkcPlayer, the first audio playback application that supports playback of Ogg… (more…)

IBM Java guru Kirk Vogen shows how to use Linux, the GNU Compiler for Java, and the Standard Widget Toolkit to create fast, native GUI applications programmed in Java in this technical whitepaper at IBM's developerWorks website. Vogan writes . . . (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today released complete embedded Linux solutions, including a full Linux distribution with the lowest-latency Linux kernel available, certified device drivers, GNU tool chains, cross platform development tools, and performance enhancing loadable kernel modules, for Embedded Planet's RPX Lite 850 and RPX Classic LF 855 single board computers… (more…)

Reporting for IDG News Service, Matt Berger examines the new version 2.0 release of Apache. Berger writes . . . (more…)

Raleigh's 'The News & Observer' Staff Writer Christina Dyrness reports on Red Hat's financial performance and the company's focus on the embedded sector. Dyrness writes . . . (more…)

Comparing the first commercially available Sharp Zaurus Linux-based PDA with more established Palm devices, Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal highlights some 'disadvantages' of the Sharp Zaurus. Mossberg describes the user interface as 'dense and complex, like on a PC', reports problems synchronizing the Zaurus with his Windows XP laptop, and cites a lack of available applications as key issues. (more…)

When Linux NetworX announced a new appliance-like device that is used for managing rack-mounted Linux clusters, called the ICE Box, LinuxDevices.com naturally wanted to crack open the ICE Box's door to find out what's inside. In this article, Linux NetworX Cluster Tools product manager Jason Lowry opens up the ICE Box and takes you on a tour of its internal hardware and software, explaining what it does… (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — SnapGear Inc. today announced the addition of shared library support for the uClinux kernel. Shared library support yields significant memory advantages for embedded developers by allowing applications to share common code libraries rather than individually static linking them in. (more…)

Version 0.9.11 of uClibc has been announced by Erik Andersen . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.11. This release is primarily focused on fixing the issues that have turned up since the last release. Several bugs in the gcc wrapper have been fixed, allowing applications such as iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly. (more…)