LynuxWorks has launched LynxOS-178, a new version of the company's POSIX-compliant LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) that is said to be certifiable to the DO-178B level A U.S. FAA (Federal Aeronautics Administration) standard. The standard is commonly used to qualify safety-critical electronic systems for the military and aerospace industry. (more…)

Sun Microsystems announced today that more than one million developers have downloaded Project JXTA from the Sun Web site. JXTA encompasses a set of XML-based open protocols for peer-to-peer network computing applications and is, according to Sun, “the only open source, standards-based, peer-to-peer technology that supports collaboration and communication on any networked device anywhere, anytime.” … (more…)

At the Game Developers Conference this week in San Jose, CA, The Khronos Group is showcasing demos of a new draft standard called the embedded subset of OpenGL (“OpenGL ES”) from several of its… (more…)

(PR excerpt) — Trolltech today released Qtopia 1.6, an embedded Linux application platform, and announced that there are now over 1000 third-party Qtopia applications available. (more…)

Confused by terms like “Banias,” “Centrino,” “Dothan,” “Mobile Pentium 4 M,” . . . ? During the next twelve months, Intel will release 14 different mobile microprocessors and two chipsets. Think you'll have trouble keeping that roadmap straight? Have no fear. Mark Hachman of ExtremeTech decodes the different mobile Pentium processors and their dizzying array of speed grades of up to 3.2-GHz. (more…)

xRhino has released BlackRhino, a Debian-based Linux operating system for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console. xRhino developed BlackRhino in the course of creating a game title for the PS2, and is “releasing this distribution at no charge to the general public in the hopes that the [Linux] PS2 development community will continue to grow,” according to xRhino president Manu Sporny. (more…)

According to a “quick survey” taken during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website, developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable, and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded systems and devices. (more…)

An announcement from the GCC Developer's Summit . . .

We are happy to announce that the GCC Developer's Summit is now officially going ahead and will take place from May 25th to May 27th, 2003 in Ottawa, Canada. The GCC Developers Summit is an opportunity for the core developers of all parts of the GNU Compiler Collection to meet. (more…)

Force Computers has announced a tiny — but powerful — computer module that is based single or dual 800 MHz PowerPC 750FX processors and is built to the “processor PCI mezzanine card” (PrPMC) form-factor (5.9 in. x 2.9 in.) specification. The module comes with ready-to-use support for operation under either embedded Linux or VxWorks. (more…)

According to a “quick survey” taken during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website, developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable, and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded systems and devices. (more…)

[Updated 5:45 pm PST] — In a recently concluded survey of embedded developer preferences, Evans Data Corp. (EDC) found that Embedded Linux remains the top embedded OS choice among developers, but that developers are not particularly satisfied with the available Embedded Linux toolsets. (more…)

An announcement from the uClibc project . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.19. This is once again primarily a bug-fix release. Several critical problems with system calls were fixed, the pthreads library was improved, debugging of applications using uClibc's pthreads library is now possible (requires compiling gdb 5.3 or newer using… (more…)

Internet Security Systems (ISS) X-Force reported today that it has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). Sendmail is the most common MTA and has been documented to handle between 50% and 75% of all Internet email traffic, ISS said. (more…)

Reasoning Inc. is making the results of its defect inspection of the Linux TCP/IP protocol stack available for public download. The study, first reported last month, concluded that the TCP/IP protocol stack implementation in Linux kernel version 2.4.19 exhibited a very low defect density as compared to several commercial… (more…)

Texas Instruments (TI) says the latest additions to its TCS family of chipsets for mobile devices offer the industry's first hardware-based security features, thereby providing the capability for enhanced protection against viruses and improved security of m-commerce and financial transactions. (more…)