A recent article entitled “Breakaway of Telecom PDA Service from Microsoft Speeding Up” published by the Korean Electronic Times (May 6, 2002) is said to report that several major Korean wireless telecom service providers are moving away from Microsoft OSes and to Linux (and Palm OS) as their strategic platforms. (more…)

This week at IBM's developerWorks Live! conference in San Francisco, IBM launched a contest called 'Robocode Rumble'. Developers of all levels are being invited to submit their 'Java robots' to IBM's alphaWorks website, where they will find out how well their enty fares through various levels of competition, until the final battle, which is to take place at LinuxWorld this August (in San… (more…)

In part three of an Embedded Linux Journal series of articles by Kevin Dankwardt on Real-time Linux, Dankwardt reviewed the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and provided some benchmark numbers. Following publication of Dankwardt's article, MontaVista Software's Kevin Morgan issued a “response” to Dankwardt's article in which he offered “a few clarifications (or points of view)”. (more…)

Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief of RTC Magazine, weighs in with a perspective on the Embedded Linux Consortium's embedded Linux “platform standard” — and on the future of the embedded Linux market. Williams writes . . . (more…)

[Updated 1:00pm PDT] Earlier this week, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum visited the IBM/Citizen Linux WatchPad, which was on display at IBM's developerWorks Live conference in San Francisco. Akihiko Mizutani, a researcher from IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory, demonstrated the capabilities of the device, showing Lehrbaum how the WatchPad scans fingerprints (using a thermal sensor… (more…)

In this guest column written for ZDNet, Michael A. Olson, president and CEO of Sleepycat Software (the developer of the open-source Berkeley DB, an embedded database engine), offers a perspective on the business merits of Open Source Software . . . (more…)

In part three of an Embedded Linux Journal series of articles by Kevin Dankwardt on Real-time Linux, Dankwardt reviewed the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and provided some benchmark numbers. Following publication of Dankwardt's article, MontaVista Software's Kevin Morgan issued a (more…)

At the recent Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, I attended a meeting/press conference held by the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC). The stated goal of the Consortium is to produce a specification for a standard platform for embedded Linux. That was also the stated goal of the Consortium last April when it met at ESC West. (more…)

In this guest column written for ZDNet, Michael A. Olson, president and CEO of Sleepycat Software (the developer of the open-source Berkeley DB, an embedded database engine), offers a perspective on the business merits of Open Source Software . . . (more…)

Sebastopol, CA — (press release excerpt) — 802.11 technology goes by a variety of names, depending on who is talking about it. Some people call it wireless Ethernet to emphasize its shared lineage with traditional wired Ethernet. Wi-Fi, from wireless fidelity, is another popular name, referring to a certification program run by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA). (more…)

Cambridge, UK and San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt)– ARM and LynuxWorks today announced that LynuxWorks' BlueCat 4.0 Linux and VisualLynux Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will be packaged with the new ARM920T core-based Integrator Porting Platform. Offered as a complete, out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution, the development platform gives developers immediate access to a ported and… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce the addition of a third format for our continually updated news headline feed. The new format, an xml compatible rdf format file, is in addition to the two existing news feeds, which are in text and html formats. The new format was added in response to numerous requests from members of the LinuxDevices.com community. (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com “Device Profile” takes a look at hippo's Internet Phone, which uses Embedded Linux as its internal software platform. The hippo Internet Phone's embedded computer is based a 48MHz Motorola MPC850/823 PowerPC system-on-chip processor with 16MB of DRAM, running an Embedded Linux… (more…)

IBM's developerWorks Linux Zone has a new tutorial to prepare you for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 exam. In this first, no-charge, tutorial in a series of four, you will learn how to compile programs from sources, how to manage shared libraries, and how to use the Red Hat and Debian package management systems. (more…)

Matthew Broersma interviews Alan Cox about Linux's overall future as well as its battle for desktop market share, in this two part interview at ZDNet UK . . . (more…)