Ottawa Ontario — (press release excerpt) — NetWinder Inc. announces the availability of its 3×00 series hardware platform for qualified OEM companies interested in taking their own Linux-based software solution and bundling it on the NetWinder platform. (more…)

Writing for Embedded Systems Programming, David Beal and Michael Barr examine the legal implications of Embedded Linux. Considering the case of mixing open source and proprietary components, the authors outline some 'rules to code by' when mixing licensing variants . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — For the benefit of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Affero is hosting a party and fund-raising evening on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 from 6 PM to 10 PM at Club NV at 525 Howard Street in San Francisco, CA. We invite all, including attendees of the nearby LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, to participate in this 'Full Tilt for Software Freedom', where… (more…)

Virtex-II Pro FPGA and MontaVista Linux provide a highly flexible and powerful solution for embedded system designers. (more…)

The Bayonne Project makes running telephony software on any vendor's card possible.

Three years ago I came to realize that we had a serious need in free software. Although free software had expanded to fill almost every other void in the enterprise infrastructure, we had not addressed the needs of telecommunications. (more…)

We've added an embedded Linux development section with in-depth information on device-driver coding and more that even a desktop developer can use. (more…)

In the first of a series of articles on device-driver development, we'll start with how the kernel handles the system console and serial ports. (more…)