Video Furnace has licensed its MPEG-4-based video distribution system to OSTN, a student-produced video network. Video Furnace System 4 uses Internet2 or private, multicast-enabled Ethernet networks to deliver multicast feeds to desktops, regardless of the operating system, browser, or plug-in. (more…)

For $60, developers and Linux hackers can now buy the guts of the recently unveiled $200 Everex TC2502 Linux PC. The compact, ultra-efficient, x86-compatible “gOS Dev Board” comes with “gOS,” a lightweight Linux-based OS meant for use with Google Apps. (more…)

Axion Racing tapped Linux and other open-source software to help navigate its driverless “Spirit” car in last week's DARPA Urban Challenge. Details of the team's novel approach, which involved running Linux on a Sony PlayStation 3, are revealed in an interesting article at LinuxInsider. (more…)

[Updated Nov. 9] — A security appliance vendor in Linux-creator Linus Torvalds's birth city has promised to add IPv6 support to its extensive line of Linux-based security appliances. Helsinki-based Stonesoft says its StoneGate appliances will support IPv6 prior to the June 30, 2008 mandate among U.S. (more…)

MontaVista Software and VirtualLogix will co-host a webinar on real-time operating systems (RTOSes) and Linux virtualization. The webinar will describe how to optimize MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) on single- and multi-core processors, using VirtualLogix's VLX for Network Infrastructure real-time virtualization platform. (more…)

Analysis — Google's open-source, Linux-based Android software stack may do for mobile phones what DOS did for the PC: create a de facto standard riveting developers together in singular purpose. (more…)

GE Fanuc has introduced two versions of a Gigabit Ethernet card in the AMC (advanced mezzanine card) form-factor. The Telum GE-QLX and GE-QSX deliver up to four Gigabit Ethernet ports and offer fiber optic transceivers, and support Carrier Grade Linux, according to the company. (more…)

MontaVista has bought out its partners to take full ownership of a Seoul-based embedded Linux venture. MontaVista Software Korea will continue to help MontaVista support Samsung, LG Electronics, ETRI, and other Korean customers using MontaVista's embedded Linux distribution and development tools,… (more…)

German Web retailer Manufactum has introduced a sleek, low power mini-PC that runs Debian Linux. The 450-Euro Manuscriptum is based on a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800, is equipped with an 80GB hard drive, and offers 1920 x 1400 graphics, according to the company. (more…)

Chumby is shipping its Linux-powered device designed for the bedside, desktop, and kitchen counter. The alarm-clock sized “Chumby” has hackable hardware, software, and outerware, connects via WiFi, and can be programmed to display everything from clock faces to stock quotes, says… (more…)

[Updated 4PM] — Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open source mobile phone stack. The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) says phones based on its Linux-based “Android” stack will reach market in as soon as eight months. (more…)

A New York-based startup is readying a modular, open source hardware/software system resembling a set of electronic Legos. Bug Labs claims device developers can build “anything” using “Bug,” which comprises an ARM11-powered base and various modular add-ons. (more…)

Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS — a cousin of Linux — running on his homebrew minicomputer, today at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. Magic-1, built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA. (more…)

Objective Interface Systems (OIS) is shipping a version of its real-time CORBA ORB (object request broker) middleware targeting Sysgo's embedded Linux distribution. The integration of OIS's ORBexpress RT with Sysgo's ELinOS is intended to improve security and performance for interprocess communications (IPC) in avionics, telecom, and industrial control applications. (more…)

Linux smartphone pioneer E28 of Beijing, China has denied a rumor that it will supply the hardware and Linux-based software for a forthcoming Google “GPhone.” The rumor began earlier this week in a brief story published by investor blog The India Street. (more…)