In this article at IBM's developerWorks website, Daniel Robbins (President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies, Inc.) shows you how to use the latest filesystem technologies in Linux 2.4 and gives an update on the status of the XFS, ReiserFS, and ext3 filesystems. He shares implementation advice, performance information, important technical notes, as well as an outline of how these various filesystems will continue… (more…)

Sharp has announced a new developer challenge for Zaurus PDA developers. Contestants choose an application from various categories (e.g., a pinball game in the “Games” category, or an HTML editor in the “Business/Productivity” category) and then develop a Qtopia application for the Zaurus that fits the need. (more…)

NewsForge editor Grant Gross reports on Linux in Navy systems and highlights initiatives that are underway to examine the replacement of proprietary systems with open source Linux. Gross writes . . . (more…)

Project leader David Sugar provides an in-depth look The Bayonne Project for Linux Journal. GNU Bayonne makes running telephony software on any vendor's card possible . . . (more…)

Writing at Linux Journal, Robert Love examines the various locking primitives in the Linux kernel — why you need them and how kernel developers can use them to write safe code . . . (more…)

Matthew Broersma of ZDNet (UK) reports that at a recent conference for partners, Microsoft has admitted that the Linux phenomenon has forced the company to change the way it approaches customers. Broersma writes . . . (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com “device profile” introduces National Scientific Corporation's StarPilot Linux-based mobile communication platform. The compact device, which mounts discretely in a vehicle's trunk or under one of the front seats, provides location information servers that can connect the car's onboard systems, and its occupants, to a broad spectrum of wireless data services. (more…)

LynuxWorks and its partners have announced they will be hosting free half-day seminars on the new LynxOS 4.0 real-time operating system. Participants have a choice in seminar emphasis from these disciplines: military/aerospace, general commercial, industrial and telecommunications. (more…)

Celebrating its 100th issue, Linux Journal lists 100 of the most significant events in Linux history . . . (more…)

National Scientific Corporation (“NSC”, Scottsdale, Arizona) and its European partner Followit AB have developed locator technology that is a merger of cell phone and global positioning RF systems technologies. Using this technology, small, portable devices can be placed in a vehicle or on a person for use in tracking or locating assets or people in more than 120 countries around the world. (more…)

In this guest editorial, TimeSys VP of Technology Doug Locke offers a rebuttal to Victor Yodaiken's recently published whitepaper on what's wrong with using a technique called 'priority inheritance' to avoid a problem in real-time systems known as 'priority inversion'. (Priority inversion is what caused big problems for the Mars Pathfinder Rover. (more…)

Linux Journal has opened the polls in their eighth annual Readers' Choice Awards. Categories include Favorite Programming Language, Most Indispensable Linux Book, Favorite Shell and Favorite Audio Tool, with 24 categories in all. (more…)

Kerneltrap.org's Jeremy Andrews has an in-depth interview with Robert Love, the maintainer of the Linux kernel preemption patch . . . (more…)

Edward J. Correia, Senior News Editor at SD Times, writes that Red Hat has not entirely killed eCos, the open source real-time operating system . . . (more…)

Clifton Park, NY — (press release excerpt) — SIXNET today announced the release of the VersaTRAK IPm Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), a small device used for datalogging, 'supervisory control and data acquisition' (SCADA), and control applications. The VersaTRAK IPm is unique in that it operates on an embedded Linux platform, thereby providing users with both the power and flexibility of Linux open-source… (more…)