Missed the big annual Embedded Systems Conference held recently in San Francisco? LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum brings you all the juicy details of the outstanding progress being made by Embedded Linux, in his customary report on “all things Linux at the Embedded Systems Conference”. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Writing at LinuxGram.com, Maureen O'Gara reports today that Lineo, faced with a liquidity crisis, has obtained emergency funding to keep its doors open. O'Gara says that during the last several weeks Lineo didn't have the funds to cover final paychecks to recently laid off employees or to its current staff, but that at… (more…)

With the possible exception of TiVo, the Sharp Zaurus PDA represents the highest profile Linux-based consumer product from a major electronics manufacturer to hit retail sales channels. Unlike TiVo, however, Sharp is strongly promoting the presence of Linux in the Zaurus as a key selling-point, and is fostering the development of third-party software and hardware products for… (more…)

Here is an excerpt from an announcement today at kde.org . . .

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.0, the third generation of KDE, a free and powerful desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.0 is available in 50 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the base desktop environment, an integrated development environment (KDevelop), and hundreds of… (more…)

David Cafaro examines both the pros and the cons of the Sharp Zaurus in this online article over at NewsForge.com. Cafaro concludes that, although there are some notable deficiencies, they aren't anything that can't be fixed — especially with the power of the open source community applied to the task. (more…)

The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) held in San Francisco during the week of March 11, 2002 was expected to draw over 15,000 attendees from all facets of the embedded systems market. Despite the much slower than anticipated economic conditions, event organizers report that attendance reached around 12,000. (more…)

In this article at ZDNet, Rich Castagna examines the role of Linux in the 'new economy' and how it has adapted to challenges with support from such industry heavyweights as IBM . . . (more…)

Mahwah, NJ — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Electronics Corp. announced that its new Linux-based Zaurus SL-5500 Personal Mobile Tool, a unique mobile communications and multimedia device, is now available to consumers at electronic stores and office products retailers nationwide. (more…)

Seoul, Korea — (press release excerpt) — HancomLinux today announced the immediate availability of Hancom Mobile Office, the first productivity suite for Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus line of PDA devices. Hancom Mobile Office, which includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation viewer comes pre-installed on all Zaurus SL-5500 devices. (more…)

[Updated 1:30 pm PST] TimeSys Corporation announced that it has extended its embedded Linux PowerPC architecture support with the release of certified board support packages (BSP) for Embedded Planet's PowerPC 823e based 'RPX Lite 823' and PowerPC 860 based 'RPX Classic LF860' single board computers (SBCs). (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that it has formed a relationship with Celestial Systems Pvt. Limited (Celestial), a service provider focused on the embedded marketplace in India. Celestial, which has offices in New Dehli and Bangalore, will distribute and support MontaVista's embedded Linux product line in India. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — In a recent study entitled 2001/2002 Merchant Computer Boards in Real-Time and Embedded Applications, Venture Development Corporation (VDC) noted that board vendors projected substantial growth in shipments of EBX form-factor motherboards during the period from 2001… (more…)

Stockholm, Sweden — (press release excerpt) — TrustLink AB today revealed that it is currently porting its mobile device applications to the embedded Linux platform as a step in its product evolution strategy. Support for Linux will be included in the next major versions of TrustLink's software. (more…)

In this second tutorial in a series on installing Linux on PDAs, Jay Staton explains how to install Linux on a VTech Helio (which normally runs a proprietary OS called VT-OS). Helio PDAs are not sold any more, but if you can locate one second-hand, you will end up with a Linux PDA based on a 75MHz 32-bit RISC processor, with 8M of RAM and 2M Flash ROM — for around $100. (more…)

In the previous tutorial of this series on installing Linux on PDAs, we discussed installing the uClinux distribution on a Handspring Visor. This time, we will take a look at a Linux distro specifically designed for the VTech… (more…)