Chris Preimesberger and Matt Liotta take a look at Mono, Rotor, and Portable .NET in this interview with key developers published at devX.com . . . (more…)

How well does your operating system juggle 200 threads at once? In this technical article at IBM's developerWorks website, performance expert Ed Bradford tests Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows XP in a thread-management bake-off. Ed puts his systems to the test using a program that exercises a machine's ability to process multiple threads. (more…)

This article at IBM's developerWorks website is the second in a two-part on programming with GNOME 2. In this installment, relative GNOME newbie Daniel Robbins takes a look at the new Glib object system from a new GNOME developer's perspective. By the end of this article, you'll know enough about GNOME to decide if you want to try it for yourself (even if you are a stalwart C fan). (more…)

Version 0.9.12 of uClibc has been announced by Erik Andersen . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.12. This release adds an i960 port, an initial alpha port, fully working mips shared library support (both big and little endian), shared library support fixes for on powerpc, and many other improvements. (more…)

Writing at CNET, Tiffany Kary reports on a Linux-based digital set-top box from Samsung and Liberate that is being introduced at the BroadcastAsia 2002 trade show this week in Singapore. . . (more…)

DesktopLinux.com has proclaimed July 4th, 2002 to be the first annual wIndependence Day. Coinciding with the US Independence Day holiday, wIndependence Day celebrates the burgeoning use of Linux on business, government, educational institution, and personal end-user computer desktops as an alternative to… (more…)

Hong Kong — (press release excerpt) — NanoGTK is an open source project for the Linux community initiated by Hong Kong based Emsoft, an innovator of Linux based software solutions for consumer electronic manufacturers in Asia. (more…)

[Updated June 19, 2002] Mizi Research (Seoul, Korea) announced earlier this week the near-term availability of a hardware/software developer kit for its [email protected] (pronounced 'Linu-ette') Embedded Linux distribution. (more…)

Reuters is reporting that Sun is 'setting the non-Microsoft standard' in 'Web services.' This move by Sun to embrace open standards, and Linux in particular, is yet another indication of a battle brewing between the two companies. For its part, Microsoft is phasing out Sun's Java in products in favor of home-grown .NET services. (more…)

MontaVista Software, Inc. today announced that two Japanese firms, Nexterm Inc. and ELT Inc., have jointly developed “an advanced thin-client terminal” based on MontaVista Linux. The Nexterm SE is described as “a highly efficient and lightweight micro-client that executes all terminal applications in a server-based computing environment.” (more…)

Munich, Germany; Debrecen, Hungary — (press releaes excerpt) — DynaPel Laboratories and MediaTechnik Software Group are partnering to develop a streaming module for Linux-based computers to multicast an MPEG-4 stream to the desired users. (more…)

CNET editor Stephen Shankland reports that Red Hat has discontinued development of its eCos open source embedded operating system, laying off the U.K. based eCos development team. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Hawthorne, NY — (press release excerpt) — IBM Research has demonstrated the industry's first self-diagnostic tool that can automatically monitor 802.11 wireless networks and report security problems in real-time. The Distributed Wireless Security Auditor (DWSA), which runs on desktop and laptop computers, can monitor wireless network security and report to the central back-end servers minute by minute,… (more…)

Toowong, Australia — (press release excerpt) — HCV Wireless announced that their BlueMod Bluetooth single-board computer (SBC) has been officially recognized as a Bluetooth product by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). This makes BlueMod the world's first (and only) qualified Bluetooth SBC. (more…)

This article from IBM developerWorks walks you through the steps of dual-booting by showing you how to install multiple instances of the same Linux distribution on a single drive, which allows you to easily test different libraries with the same program, watch how your program interacts with others, or tweak a parameter here or there just to see what happens. (more…)