Monrovia, CA — (press release excerpt) — Parasoft and MontaVista Software today announced that Parasoft Insure++, an automated runtime error-detection tool for C/C++, will support MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1. (more…)

Bill von Hagen provides a detailed technical overview of the Coda distributed filesystem for Linux in this article at LinuxPlanet . . . (more…)

The Hindu Business line (Bangalore, India) reports that InfoMart is scheduled to release Kaii, a Linux- and Java-based PDA running on a 160MHz Hitachi 215 MIPS… (more…)

[Updated Oct. 9, 2002] Sicom Systems Inc. announced that they are in the process of installing 160 Linux-based SL-18 point-of-sale (POS) systems in all of the Burger King restaurants in Puerto Rico. (more…)

In this interview on IBM's developerWorks website, David Mosberger, developer of the initial GCC port to IA-64 and lead kernel architect for Linux on IA-64, tells us why you should care about Intel's new 64-bit chip. Mosberger joined an Internet research group within Hewlett Packard in 1997, and a few years later began to contribute to the Itanium port, where he is now lead kernel architect. (more…)

Santa Barbara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Green Hills Software today announced what is claimed to be the industry's most efficient optimizing C/C++ compiler and assembler for the ARM family of microprocessor cores. The new compiler supports target devices running Linux. (more…)

Robert Roebling has announced the first beta release of wxEmbedded, a new open source graphical windowing environment for small devices. Here is a brief overview from Roebling about wxEmbedded, along with some background on the wxWindows project from which wxEmbedded is derived . . . (more…)

Peabody, MA — (press release excerpt) — ScanSoft, Inc. today unveiled the ASR-3200, a highly accurate and scalable automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine for adding voice control capabilities to automotive, mobile, and PC applications. The ScanSoft ASR-3200 is a new speaker-independent recognition engine that meets the size and accuracy requirements for embedded automotive and navigation systems, yet… (more…)

Robert Roebling has announced the first beta release of wxEmbedded, a new open source graphical windowing environment for small devices. Here is a brief overview from Roebling about wxEmbedded, along with some background on the wxWindows project from which wxEmbedded is derived . . . (more…)

IDG News Service, Tokyo Bureau, reports that Sharp has unveiled a new high-end Linux PDA at the Ceatec 2002 exhibition in Chiba, Japan. The new device, shown in the photo below (from Sharp's Ceatec website), has a landscape-format LCD screen and what appears to be a substantially larger keyboard than that of the… (more…)

Raleigh, NC and Wash. D.C. — (press release excerpt) — The first Open Source Security Summit. The Security Summit will take place at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on October 29, and will be cohosted by Dell. (more…)

This article from IBM developerWorks provides an introduction to the Linux netfilter/iptables system, how it works, its advantages, installing and configuring, and how to use it to configure firewalls on Linux systems to filter IP packets. The netfilter/iptables is the IP packet filtering system that is integrated with the latest 2.4.x versions of the Linux kernel. (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — SnapGear Inc. announced today that their VPN Firewall appliances are free from issues recently discovered in Microsoft Windows PPTP software. (more…)

In this open letter, MontaVista Software's Bill Weinberg responds to the recent article by Kevin Dankwardt entitled “Are non-GPL loadable Linux drivers really not a problem?” . . . (more…)

Natick, MA — Venture Development Corp (VDC) has released the following complimentary research bulletin, as part of VDC's ongoing Embedded Software Strategic Market Intelligence Program . . . (more…)