The Ericsson DSI team authored this technology brief explaining 'distributed security architecture' (DSI) that supports advanced security mechanisms. Targeted at telecom applications running on carrier-class Linux clusters, the DSI team offers a great overview in this online Linux Journal article . . . (more…)

DesktopLinux.com Contributing Editor Malcolm Dean reports on the keynote speech at opening day of the USENIX conference in Monterey, CA where over 1100 attendees are on hand for a week of high-powered conferences. Predicting a 'silent spring' on the Internet, Stanford University's renowned Lawrence Lessig lectured on the scope and extent of laws affecting the Internet. (more…)

Vancouver, June 12, 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Nearly 200 of the world's leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers have announced the formation of a new, global organization called the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). (more…)

Suzanne Thornberry examines the role of Linux in PDAs for ZDNet . . .

“With Sharp Electronics' rollout of the Zaurus, Linux has been getting more attention as a viable platform for handheld devices.” (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com 'device profile' takes a peek at the new Toshiba Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server, a compact, Linux-based portable wireless server. About the size of a typical notebook computer, the appliance-like device is intended to make it easy to pack up an entire network and take it on the… (more…)

The Open Group's conference, “Boundaryless Information Flow: The Role of Web
Services,” will be held in Boston July 22-26. (more…)

Vienna, Austria — (press release excerpt) — BMS Bayer Ltd. today announced the availability of EasyDose, the first Linux-based medical embedded device for radiologists. (more…)

Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report on 'SELinux', a Linux-based security module, in this article at Wired . . . (more…)

Kevin Dankwardt attended the Embedded Linux Expo and Conference (ELEC) held June 11, 2002 in Dallas, TX and filed this report with his impressions of the event. Dankwardt writes . . . (more…)

Kevin Dankwardt provides a perspective on Adeos, which is being put forward as a patent-free, GPL alternative approach to adding hard-real-time capability to Linux (among other uses). Dankwardt writes . . . (more…)

Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (Irvine, CA) recently introduced the Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server, a compact, Linux-based portable wireless server. About the size of a typical notebook computer, the appliance-like device is intended to make it easy to pack up an entire network and take it on the road. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Expo and Conference (ELEC) was held June 11, 2002 in Dallas. The turn-out for the event was good. (more…)

Carolyn A. Kenwood of The MITRE Corp. authored this lengthy document assessing open source Linux . . . (more…)

This article from IBM focuses on installing and configuring CVS on Red Hat Linux 7 as a software configuration management (SCM) repository. CVS, the dominant open-source, network-transparent version control system, runs on most platforms, and is included in Linux distributions such as Red Hat Linux 7. (more…)

New Breed software has announced . . .

The release of Brickout — a Breakout clone. Brickout is a ball-and-paddle game where it's your objective to destroy bricks on the screen. (more…)