[Updated Mar. 3] — The first “registerable” release of the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 3 specification has been made. Linux distributions can now be registered as compliant with CGL 3.2, which includes a variety of changes based on feedback from specification users, according to the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs), the member-funded industry group that maintains the specification. (more…)

The Access/PalmSource Linux Platform (ALP), a Linux environment for smartphones and other devices expected to appear in devices in 2007, must attract developers in order to succeed, suggests Jason Perlow at ComputingUnplugged. (more…)

TimeSys has signed up four new ASSPs (authorized support and service partners) for its subscription-based service package for embedded Linux developers. The new LinuxLink ASSPs will provide native-language sales and support, and value-added services, in France, Israel, Greece, Turkey, India, and Southeast Asia, TimeSys says. (more…)

A fabless semiconductor startup focused on “multi-function video processing chips” has adopted Linux and an open-source RISC core. Vivace Semiconductor's roadmap, unveiled at a venture capital event today in San Francisco, includes a VSP200 chip targeting portable video players, and a VSP300 chip targeting high-definition integrated digital TVs (DTVs). (more…)

A dozen videos addressing topics of interest to embedded Linux developers are now available from Free-Electrons, a small company in the South of France that distributes free embedded Linux documentation and training materials. The videos were shot at last week's FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting) in Brussels, Belgium. (more…)

Socket Communications says its wireless SDIO cards are now supported under Linux, thanks to proprietary SDIO stacks from Codetelligence and EmbWise. Additionally, the cards support the CIFS NQ storage filesystem protocol through third-party middleware from Visuality Systems, it says. (more…)

One of the world's largest consumer electronics companies claims to have booted Linux on an ARM11 SoC (system-on-chip) built on 65-nanometer CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) process technology. Philips Electronics calls the unnamed SoC “the first truly consumer product-oriented SoC to be successfully produced in 65-nm low-power CMOS.”

Philips says it designed the new,… (more…)