Writing for ZDNet UK, Matthew Broersma reports on the latest progress of porting Linux to the Xbox . . . (more…)

Woburn, MS — (press release excerpt) — SensAble Technologies, Inc. today announced immediate availability of GHOST (General Haptics Open Software Toolkit) Version 4 which for the first time provides support for the Red Hat Linux and other platforms. (more…)

In Part 1 of this two part series at Linux Journal, Joe Edwards, Audin Malmin and Ron Shaker introduce RAID-1 — when to use it, and how to make a RAID-1 device for an ext2 partition. They write . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech previewed version 3.1 of Qt at LinuxWorld today. This new version is particularly noteworthy because it gives developers and corporate IT professionals — for the first time — a way to gradually migrate from the limited world of Motif and MFC over to the single-source, multiplatform nirvana of Qt. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat and AMD today announced that Red Hat will offer support for the upcoming AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon processors based on AMD's Hammer technology in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. Red Hat will provide native 64-bit support for processors based on AMD's x86-64 technology, while providing support for existing 32-bit Linux-based applications. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech and i3 micro technology today announced that Qt/Embedded, Trolltech's compact embedded Linux version of the Qt toolkit, will be included in i3's Mood Box, a set-top box. (more…)

Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — TROY Wireless today announced EtherWind-Plus, an intelligent 802.11b board-level product designed to allow OEMs to easily incorporate 802.11b wireless connectivity and/or Ethernet connectivity inside of their products. EtherWind-Plus can work with almost any device that has a standard IEEE 1284 parallel port or RS-232 serial port. (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — InHand Electronics Inc. today announced the immediate availability of InHand Linux for its full-line of handheld and wireless device reference platforms. (more…)

Santa Cruz, CA — (press release excerpt) — Attendees at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will get a revealing look at the worldwide Linux developer community's attitudes, beliefs, opinions and intentions in a presentation by Evans Data Corp. (EDC) analyst Jeff Child, Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 1:45 p.m. PDT. (more…)

Irvine, CA — (press release excerpt) — Broadcom Corp. today announced a 500 megabit/sec (Mbps) IP security processor that provides manufacturers with a high-performance, low power security solution for cost-sensitive networking equipment. The Broadcom BCM5823 CryptoNetX IPsec Processor, with a built-in PCI bus, supports the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and public key processing. (more…)

Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — HP announced that it has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop and deploy file system software for Linux clusters. The joint research and development effort between HP and NNSA to develop the software, code-named Lustre, is a three-year project. (more…)

Milpitas, CA — (press release excerpt) — LSI Logic Corp. today introduced the first product in its HomeBASE family of digital subscriber line (xDSL) end-to-end solutions, the HomeBASE ADSL Ethernet chipset. The chipset is designed to address the cost and performance issues of the ADSL customer premise equipment (CPE) market. (more…)

Atlanta, GA and Cork, Ireland — (press release excerpt) — Raidtec Corp. announced the launch of NAS-in-a-Flash, an implementation of its NAS Operating System, FlashLinux. NAS-in-a-Flash is the entire FlashLinux combination of NAS OS and storage applications suite embedded in a Flash plug-in module for Intel CPU based motherboards. (more…)

Oakland, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Free Standards Group has launched a new workgroup aimed at creating a standardized, scalable printing architecture and high-level requirements for printing systems. The OpenPrinting Workgroup is open to both industry and community participants to address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,… (more…)

This pair of announcements from Erik Andersen covers two updates to uClibc (version 0.9.13 followed by a quick bug fix), news of a native uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain, and the exciting announcement that uClibc is now available from the kernel.org mirrors . . . (more…)