Motorola unveiled a new system-on-chip processor for imaging applications today, aimed at the highly cost-sensitive “100 million unit per year” printer/copier market. The MPC8220i is based on a dual-processor design that combines a PowerPC 603 microprocessor core along with a PF300 image coprocessor that accelerates color and monochrome imaging processing. (more…)

MontaVista Software has added support for the IDT (Integrated Device Technology) 79EB438 evaluation board to MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0, according to an announcement today by the two companies. The 79EB438 eval board is based on IDT's RC32438 Interprise communications processor, which targets networking and access device applications such as switches, gateways, wireless access points… (more…)

[Updated July 1, 2003] — Motorola software tools subsidiary Metrowerks today rolled out “OpenPDA,” a family of software components, development tools, and related services for Linux-based mobile devices. According to Metrowerks, OpenPDA provides a complete, “pre-integrated” software stack for mobile devices such as PDAs and smart handhelds, and is based on a combination of open source and… (more…)

Grid computing is gaining a lot of attention within the IT industry. Although it has been used within the academic and scientific community for some time, standards, enabling technologies, toolkits, and products are becoming available that allow businesses to use and reap the advantages of Grid computing. (more…)

SnapGear Inc. announced the integration of support for the Hitachi H8 300S processor into the open source uClinux distribution. The project was undertaken “at the instigation of Hitachi, in order to support intended developments in the mobile security market,” said SnapGear. (more…)

The Mono project announced yesterday that a new release of the Mono run-time and SDKm, version 0.25, is now available for download. From the release notes . . .

This is a delicious release of Mono: so many new things have been improved, implemented, fixed, and tuned from the last release that it is hard to not be excited about it. (more…)

Jaluna SA today announced the availability of a family of three Linux-based operating systems aimed at builders of telecom and network infrastructure equipment. The three products include: Jaluna-2/EL, an embedded Linux OS; Jaluna-2/RT, a real-time OS based on a combination of Linux plus a microkernel; Jaluna-2/VL, a real-time multi-OS software platform based on the combination of several instances of… (more…)

IBM has published the following seven technical articles and tutorials on its developerWorks website. They cover a range of interesting (though not embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . .

• Emulate legacy operating systems on Linux — This (more…)

In an earlier review of Sharp's original Zaurus developer model (the SL-5000) at Geek.com, Thomas Brady commented that “Linux makes the Zaurus a flexible, powerful handheld that is extremely developer friendly,” but noted that “when it comes to serving as a mission critical PIM-vehicle, though, the Zaurus is lackluster,” “the PIM… (more…)

HP is showcasing its Linux cluster initiatives and products at the ClusterWorld conference this week in San Jose, CA. (more…)

SuSE Linux announced that Cray Inc. has selected its Linux distribution to drive “key aspects” of the U.S. Department of Energy's new massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer called Red Storm, which will be installed at Sandia National Laboratories. When completed, Red Storm will be the fastest supercomputer in the U.S., SuSE and Cray said. (more…)

Intel Corp. announced today that Intel, HP, the Univ. of Calif. (Berkeley campus), Princeton, the Univ. of Wash., and more than sixty other universities have formed a “global test bed” for inventing and testing prototype Internet applications and services. The aim of the project, called PlanetLab, is “to spark a new era of innovation by using 'overlay' networks to upgrade and expand the Internet's… (more…)

Dave Cinege, leader of the famed Linux Router Project (LRP) has proclaimed that “the operating system that helped to create the embedded Linux marketplace, the Linux Router Project, is dead.” Cinege, who describes himself as a semi-retired computer engineer, said he has become resigned to the reality that he will never be able to develop LRP into the operating system he felt it could have been. (more…)

This article from the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) describes the use of free software and open hardware to develop amateur-built medium-sized sub-orbital rockets capable of launching “nanosatellites” (satellites weighing less than 10 kg) into orbit. In examining the requirements of a navigational system that could guide the rocket along an orbital trajectory, PSAS concluded that the necessary… (more…)

In a short but interesting interview with Linux originator Linus Torvalds, eWEEK questions Torvalds' expectations in two areas: (1) the expected impact on Linux kernel development due to his new role as the Open Source Development Lab's first full-time “fellow”; and (2) his thoughts on — and reactions to — SCO's attack on Linux (and IBM). (more…)