If you're following the ongoing SCO vs. Linux story, you'll be interested to learn that late yesterday, IBM filed a legal counter-claim against the SCO Group. According to an article at CNET, the IBM 45-page document court filing accuses SCO of violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) under which Linux is released, of violating four IBM software patents, and of interfering with IBM's business by… (more…)

The Linux Terminal Server Project has released version 4.0 with major changes in the build environment intended to increase deployment flexibility. (more…)

TimeSys Corp. announced today that it has joined the CE Linux Forum (CELF), an industry group focused on the advancement of Linux as an open source platform for consumer electronics devices. TimeSys said it will contribute its expertise in real-time embedded Linux toward furthering CELF's goals of improving the operating system's real-time performance, reliability, and power management, and reducing… (more…)

Most LinuxDevices.com readers are well aware of how difficult it is to judge the utility of competing software development methods in objective and quantifiable ways. The proliferation of languages, software engineering methodologies, and tools suggests that it is not easy to determine which way is best — clearly, if one way were verifiably best, in a results-oriented field the inferior methods would… (more…)

Earlier this month, market research firm Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) released a report which claims embedded development projects based on Microsoft's “Windows Embedded” operating system platforms (specifically, Windows CE .NET and Windows XP Embedded) are completed 43% faster and at 68% lower cost, on average, compared with similar projects… (more…)

Updated Sep. 16 — Trolltech announced the release of version 1.7 of Qtopia, the Linux-based application environment for mobile embedded devices that is used in Sharp's Zaurus PDAs. The latest Qtopia release is said to offer new levels of speed, performance, and customizability. (more…)

[Updated 8:00pm PDT] — Interact-TV unveiled a developer version of the Linux-based Telly MC1000 Digital Entertainment Center, at LinuxWorld today. According to Interact-TV, the Telly MC1000d developer version is a complete system with full capabilities for playing, recording, and archiving TV shows; ripping and burning CDs; playing DVDs, music, and digital photos; and sharing media over a home… (more…)

Not able to attend LinuxWorld, but want to know what's happening there? CNET has a comprehensive “special report” covering many of the keynotes, product and technology announcements, and show-floor buzz of this year's Linux extravaganza in San Francisco. (more…)

Advanced Micro Devices announced an agreement with National Semiconductor to acquire National's 'x86' architecture Geode system-on-chip processor family (used in a large number of consumer devices, especially set-top boxes and tablet PCs). (more…)

RealNetworks launched the open source, collaborative Helix Player project at LinuxWorld today, and announced that membership in the Helix community has now exceeded 20,000, including both open source and commercial developers. The goal of the Helix Player project is to develop a comprehensive open source media player for Linux, Unix, and Solaris, with broad industry support among companies and… (more…)

SnapGear announced new embedded Linux support for Intel's XScale processors. Intel will ship SnapGear's embedded Linux distribution with development boards for the Intel IXP4XX network processor product line, and SnapGear will provide free downloads of the IXP4XX from its website, the company said. (more…)

[Updated Aug. 6, 2003] — In the continuing saga of SCO's claim that Linux contains unlicensed SCO proprietary technology, here is SCO's latest announcement, which, we note, includes a reference to the use of Linux in embedded applications . . . (more…)

Opera Software announced that over 10 million copies its Opera web browser have been downloaded from its website so far this year, a new record. This is in addition to the many millions more copies of Opera that were obtained from other download sites around the world, including in Europe, the U.S., and Japan, the company said. (more…)

MontaVista Software announced today that its embedded Linux Consumer Electronics Edition (CEE) operating system now supports IBM's PowerPC 405LP, an embedded processor that targets “pervasive devices” such as advanced PDAs and cell phones. (more…)

Motorola's Metrowerks software tools unit launched a “professional” integrated development environment (IDE) and tool suite for developing Linux-based application software targeting the latest Sharp Zaurus PDAs, including the SL-5600. (more…)