The RaveHD is a hybrid video digital disk recorder (DDR)/player and video editor based on Linux and built around open source and Unix design principles. Two years in development, it targets the post production and visual effects industries, and has been used in the production of major movies. (more…)

A Denx developer has released under the GPL a filesystem for embedded Linux systems that facilitates software updates of read-only filesystems. The “mini_fo” or mini fan-out filesystem works similarly to FreeBSD's union filesystem, according to developer Markus Klotzbücher, and serves “to virtually make a read-only filesystem writeable.” (more…)

IBM today held an event in New York called “Power Everywhere,” at which it announced its plans to cultivate an open-source-like development ecosystem around its Power processor intellectual property. New IBM programs will reward companies, partners, and researchers who embed Power cores in system-on-chips (SoCs) targeting a variety of applications. (more…)

Embedded hardware specialist VIA will partner with thin client software vendor Neoware Systems on embedded Linux network appliances targeting enterprise customers. The appliances will run a thin-client embedded Linux implementation that Neoware is expected to announce next Monday. (more…)

This article by Movial Technical Manager Veli Mankinen introduces a GPL-licensed toolset for integrating, cross-compiling, and testing Linux software. Scratchbox provides a sandbox build environment that assures that the intended versions of libraries, headers, and other such files are used during the build. (more…)

Wind River says it, too, will deliver embedded Linux and tools for IBM's much-heralded PowerPC 970FX processor. Wind River says it will support the new chip — a die-shrink of the PowerPC 970 chip found in Apple Macintosh G5s — through its recently announced partnership with Red Hat. (more…)

Following NASA's announcement that “substantial” amounts of liquid water once existed on Mars, Art & Logic, Inc. is studying the feasibility of outsourcing computer programming tasks to the Red Planet. The company hopes to establish early dominance in the Martian outsourcing market, should a Martian civilization ever be discovered. (more…)

Foreword: This article by Movial Technical Manager Veli Mankinen introduces a GPL-licensed environment that provides a set of tools to integrate, cross-compile, and test Linux software. Scratchbox provides a sandbox build environment that assures that the intended versions of libraries, headers, and other such files are used during the build. (more…)