Oslo, Norway & Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech today announced Shawn Gordon as the winner of its Qtopia Worldwide Developer Contest. His design, called Jabber, is a commercially-available instant messaging client for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D. (more…)

Houston, TX — (press release excerpt) — Quadros Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired the RTXC and Quadros/RTXC operating system technology from Lineo. (more…)

An announcement from the Linux Test Project . . .

The Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20020607.tgz has been released. Visit our website to download the latest version of the test suite, and, for information on test results on pre release, release candidate and stable releases of the kernel. (more…)

The recent announcement of Adeos by Philippe Gerum, Karim Yaghmour, Paolo Mantegazza, and a variety of organizations provides an exciting opportunity to real-time Linux developers. Is there a new, completely GPL, Open Source, solution for hard real-time with Linux? If so, is the solution a sound one? I'll provide my… (more…)

Wakefield, MA — (press release excerpt) — The PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG) has published two new documents, PICMG 2.12 Revision 2.0, the CompactPCI Hot Swap Infrastructure Interface Specification, and an Engineering Change Notice, ECN 001, to the PICMG 2.9 System Management specification defining CompactPCI slot connectivity data. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks, Inc. today announced availability of BlueCat RT, its hybrid, embedded hard real-time Linux operating system. The operating system will be offered as part of a choice of several bundles with tool and service options. BlueCat RT offers a comprehensive solution for systems that only require real-time in a subset of their applications. (more…)

Beijing, China — (press release excerpt) — today Trolltech announced two partnerships in an effort to build momentum in China. Together with Chinasoft, Trolltech will drive the acceptance of Qt and Qtopia as the standard for application development on various wireless devices. Trolltech has also announced a strategic partnership with RedFlag, a Beijing-based software company, to collaborate on the… (more…)

The following is an excerpt from a media advisory issued by Stargen, concerning a presentation to be given at this week's Embedded Linux Expo and Conference taking place in Dallas, TX . . . (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA– (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that it has accepted an invitation to serve on the board of directors of eclipse.org. This prestigious open source community develops the Eclipse Platform, an integrated development framework designed to allow easy interoperability between different software solutions. (more…)

In this article at Linux Journal, Boudewijn Rempt and Cameron Laird explain the use of Qt 3.0, one of the two most popular GUI toolkits for Linux application development. The authors tour Qt Designer with images and detailed descriptions of this powerful visual design environment . . . (more…)

Tired of filling out forms? Nobody can read your handwriting? or spell your last name? In this brief technical article at LinuxDevices.com, Entrepreneur and Linux hacker Gerd Rausch explains how (and why) he created a small device that could be installed at rental-car agencies, hotel/airline check-in desks, or health-care facilities to receive data beamed directly from your PDA. (more…)

An announcement from IBM . . .

Here's your last chance to conveniently get all the IBM middleware (DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and Lotus Domino), that has been ported to Linux, sent to you for free. The 2-CD Set is part of a new program called (more…)

CNET staff writer Rachel Konrad reports on an emerging trend that suggests Linux will continue to take on a more significant role in business. Konrad features a CNET poll which reinforces that viewpoint . . . (more…)

The idea

Tired of filling out forms? Nobody can read your handwriting? Is your last name 'Rausch', and no one can spell it? (more…)

Taipei, Taiwan — (press release excerpt) — this week, National Semiconductor Corp. announced the availability of its Geode SCX200 family of Pentium-class system-on-chip (SOC) processors in a 40mm thermally enhanced plastic ball grid array (PBGA) package. The SCX200 SOCs integrate an x86 processor core along with all the major system blocks required for a high performance information appliance in one… (more…)