A board vendor specializing in military and rugged markets is sampling a 2-inch-square ARM9/FPGA processor module designed to plug into a 462-pin CPU-style socket. Advanced Knowledge Associates (AKA), says its LM150 comes with a Linux BSP (board support package) and supports applications requiring custom … (more…)

The FSF (Free Software Foundation) today released GPLv3 (GNU General Public License version 3), the third generation of the world's most popular free software license. However, only about twenty open source projects have adopted the new license so far, notes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, over at Linux-Watch. (more…)

Freescale has reached volume production on a new SoC (system-on-chip) for video-enabled, drive-equipped devices based on Linux and other embedded OSes. Built on 90nm technology, the i.MX27 adds on-chip video acceleration, more storage interfaces, and a 10/100 Ethernet port to Freescale's popular i.MX21 mobile application processor, built on 130nm technology. (more…)

Intel's Core 2 Duo processor has “serious, exploitable” bugs, claims Open BSD founder Theo de Raadt. Posting on a mailing list, de Raadt further charges that Intel leaves open source operating systems “in the cold” when it comes to providing fixes. (more…)

O'Reilly has just released a collection of essays by 38 pioneering software developers. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson, aims to show “how the experts solve near-impossible software development dilemmas.”

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Motorola announced this week that the open source high availability (HA) software project it launched four months ago has made considerable progress. The OpenSAF project has achieved an initial 1.0 code release, and Motorola has started the process of forming an “industry-wide consortium” to steward the project, according to the company. (more…)

At least two large online retailers are selling Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet for $140. (more…)

The open source Eclipse tools project will orchestrate a massive, coordinated release on June 29. Among the “Europa” releases' 21 constituent sub-project releases, four are significant to Linux device developers, according to Doug Gaff, leader of Eclipse.org's Device Software Development Project. (more…)

Embedded Linux OS and tools provider MontaVista has joined Power.org. The company plans to help the independent, vendor-neutral industry group promote and maintain the PowerPC processor architecture, and said it hopes to “significantly contribute to global issues impacting open standard hardware development.” (more…)

This year's summer LinuxWorld conference will feature three separate one-day, vendor-sponsored programs aimed at embedded Linux device developers. Set for Aug. 6-9 in San Francisco, the event includes programs from Access, Motorola, and Wind River. (more…)

As Apple launches its iPhone today, a company attempting to build a similar touchscreen-based phone around an open, user-extensible Linux OS has acknowledged significant delays. (more…)

The Eclipse Foundation, which oversees the open-source Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment), today rolled out “Europa,” its latest annual “coordinated project release.” The huge release spans 21 projects and over 17 million lines of code, and weighs in at “more than double the size of last year's record-setting release,” the Foundation said. (more…)

Via Technologies has introduced a new mini-motherboard built in its signature mini-ITX form-factor. The “Epia LT” is based on the company's 1.5GHz or fanless 1GHz C7 processor and highly-integrated CX700 chipset, provides dual-Ethernet and dual-LVDS flat panel outputs, and is available with a TV-out video option. (more…)

Kontron has introduced an AMC (advanced mezzanine card) module based on a 1.5GHz dual-core Freescale PowerPC processor, with support for Linux and VxWorks. The AM4100 AMC offers the “highest Ethernet bandwidth” within the constraints of “modular AdvancedTCA carriers or highly-integrated, redundant MicroTCA… (more…)

Multi-core MIPS64 network processor specialist Cavium Networks plans to expand into the storage processor market. The fabless chip house expects to begin sampling the first chips from a new Octeon Multicore Storage Services Processor (SSP) line later this year. (more…)