Lineo Solutions has contributed patches to the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum that enable its CE-optimized Linux distribution to run on SuperH processors, and SuperH processor company Renesas has released a “prototype development platform” that runs the new CE Linux code. (more…)

Roku has released a software development kit (SDK) for its embedded Linux-based HD1000 high definition digital media player, and will give away a giant LCD TV in a coding contest. The C/C++ SDK avails developers of APIs and libraries used in the hacker-friendly (more…)

WindowsForDevices has published an extensive interview with Artifex, the 21-year-old programmer who founded the xbox-windows project to port Windows CE to the Xbox. The project combines open source and shared source development based on an interesting marriage of GPL/LGPL software (borrowed from the xbox-linux port)… (more…)

The world's first MPEG-4 encoder-decoder (CODEC) System-on-Chip (SoC) will be supplied to device designers with a ready-to-run embedded Linux kernel and Linux development tools, according to chipmaker Protocom and Linux support partner LynuxWorks. The device targets consumer electronic and military applications, and will appear initially in a tapeless camcorder device from an unnamed consumer electronics… (more…)

The “real time interrupt patch” (rtirq-patch) described in this document enables the linux kernel for hard-real-time applications by adding priorities to interrupts and spinlocks. (more…)

According to a summary market research report from Allied Business Intelligence (ABI), wireless handset operating systems (OSs) and middleware have started playing an increasingly important role for OEMs/ODMs. After a long tradition of handsets equipped with firmware/proprietary OSs, current Smartphones offer standardized platforms allowing flexibility to communicate seamlessly among various devices. (more…)

Transmeta introduced two reference platforms today, to support device and system designs based on its Efficeon TM8600 and Crusoe TM5900 processors. Both platforms support Linux. Interestingly, the Crusoe TM5900 reference platform (pictured on the left) is implemented in the increasingly popular (more…)

The Khronos Group, an industry group promoting graphics and multimedia standards, has finalized an adopter's package and conformance testing procedure for the 1.0 release of OpenGL Embedded Subset (ES), a 2D/3D graphics… (more…)

A brief market research summary outlines growing overlap and competition between personal computer (PC) and consumer electronics (CE) vendors, as PC vendors seek higher-margin markets, and computing and consumer technologies converge. PC vendors are unlikely to win much of a stake in the consumer electronics domain, though, according to research firm ABI. (more…)

TeamF1, Inc. is shipping its V-IPSecure software for virtual private networks (VPNs) for MontaVista Linux Professional and MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Editions. The software is said to be a lean and robust implementation of IPsec and IKE protocols for both IPv4 and IPv6 netorks, providing end-to-end IP datagram security. (more…)

TimeSys has delivered the first Linux SDK for the Aitech Defense Systems C100, a VME-bus SBC targeting rugged military applications. The SDK aims to save money and development time by providing development tools, drivers, and a ready-to-run, single-kernel, real-time Linux kernel licensed in a royalty-free model. (more…)

Cornice Inc. has introduced a tiny 2GB magnetic media “Storage Element” for use in consumer electronics devices. The company says the 0.20 x 1.69 x 1.43 inch device (5 x 42.8 x 36.4 mm) will enable device makers to build pocket-sized products that store music, video, and pictures — including more than three hours of VHS-quality… (more…)

Richard Stallman has published an essay about the meaning of free software, today, on the 20th anniversary of his decision to quit his job at MIT to focus on creating “GNUs Not Unix” (GNU), a free Unix-like operating system. (more…)

Well-known embedded Linux developer and trainer Phil Wilshire will offer a half-day seminar and several multi-day classes on using embedded Linux in February of 2004, in San Marcos, Calif., just north of San Diego. Wilshire has more than 25 years of embedded experience, including 11 at Kaiser aluminum, where he designed a Rolling Mill Control System utilizing real-time… (more…)

All too often, checking the README of a package yields only the none-too-specific “Build instructions: run configure, then run make.” But what about when that doesn't work? (more…)