Following in the footsteps of similar programs from HP, the OSDL, and Novell/SuSE, Red Hat today unveiled an “Open Source Assurance” program that includes an Intellectual Property Warranty stating that Red Hat will replace any code with an… (more…)

Concurrent Computer Corporation expects to ship dual-Opteron systems running real-time Linux in February or early March of 2004. It has already supplied one system to an early, unnamed customer. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's sister site DesktopLinux.com reports that the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has formed a Desktop Linux Working Group, which will work to recommend improvements to Linux that will increase its use as a desktop operating system. The report offers some impressive statistics and predictions about the growing use of Linux as a desktop operating system. (more…)

Texas Instruments (TI) has released the first of several planned mobile phone reference design chipsets supporting the “Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution” (EDGE) high-speed mobile data standard. The half-business-card sized design supports embedded Linux and other popular mobile device operating systems, and targets smartphones, feature phones, and PDAs. (more…)

LynuxWorks is shipping BlueCat Linux 5.0, its first production release based on Linux kernel 2.6. LynuxWorks calls the release “the industry's first commercially available embedded Linux distribution based on Linux 2.6,” although SnapGear earlier released a free embedded Linux distribution based on 2.6 which it… (more…)

Motorola Computer Group has announced a single board computer (SBC) with a VMEbus interface more than seven times faster than typical. The $3,995 (estimated) MVME6100 is expected to ship in May of 2004, with Linux and VxWorks board support packages. (more…)

CyberGuard Corp. says its new embedded Linux powered PCI-card firewall can protect PCs against security breaches originating on other PCs within a LAN environment. The $399 CyberGuard PCI635 card updates the $299 PCI630… (more…)

Zultys Technologies has released a free soft-phone that runs on Linux and provides many of the features of the company's embedded-Linux-based Zip 4×4 SIP phone, without requiring a separate handset. (more…)

This open letter to the EE Times responds to an editorial by Green Hills Software CEO Dan O'Dowd, in which O'Dowd denies the existence of a market for embedded Linux development tools. The letter was written by Kevin Dankwardt, a respected embedded Linux instructor and LinuxDevices.com contributing editor. (more…)

If you have a high-end DVD player with built-in networking, or an IP set-top-box (STB) with a built-in DVD player, odds are that Linux runs in your family room. Sigma, which claims to be the marketshare leader in “IP STB” chips, says it has shipped “about a million” DVD player system-on-chip processors that run its… (more…)

Digital video and training software vendor CyberLink Corp. is shipping PowerDVD Linux, its Linux DVD playback software for embedded Linux devices. The software targets multimedia set-top box (STB) system integrators and suppliers, according to CyberLink, and features high-quality video playback, Dolby Digital, fast forward, backward, pause, change skin, and more. (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com guide to mini-ITX motherboards in the world of embedded Linux provides an introduction to mini-ITX and aggregates news stories, project features, board announcements, and more. (more…)

German embedded multimedia company MyCable has added a larger case option and a graphics card to its “XXS” line of incredibly small systems based on AMD's Alchemy processor. The modules are delivered with a Linux development kit, and target high-end embedded multimedia, networking, and control systems. (more…)

Foreword: The following open letter to the EE Times responds to this editorial by Green Hills Software CEO Dan O'Dowd, in which O'Dowd denies the existence of a market for embedded Linux development tools. (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com guide to mini-ITX motherboards in the world of embedded Linux provides an introduction to mini-ITX and aggregates news stories, project features, board announcements, and more. Read each article and follow the emergence of mini-ITX as one of the key form-factors for embedded Linux based products and projects! (more…)