LinuxDevices.com recently contacted Red Flag Software to learn about the company's embedded Linux business activities in China. We received replies to our questions from Danny Huang, Vice President and General Manager of Red Flag's “Embedded Product Division,” and are pleased to share the following short interview with the Embedded Linux community . . . (more…)

Owasys has developed a pair of Linux-based wireless terminals for remote management applications in automotive and industrial environments. The automotive model (Owa22A) can be used for fleet management, automatic vehicle location, emergency and theft monitoring, in-car telephony, onboard telematics, and vehicle positioning services. (more…)

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The Open Source community-based software development model provides industry, government, and academia with significant opportunities to leverage IT investments and increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency by using and continually improving high quality Open Source software. (more…)

Cyclades Corp. introduced a compact, Linux-based single port console server for remote access, monitoring, and management of network infrastructures. According to Cyclades, the AlterPath Advanced Console Server (ACS1) creates a secure, “out-of-band” communications path to remotely access and control servers, network equipment, or automation devices via serial console ports, which can even function when… (more…)

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The Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) is a small, low-budget amateur aerospace group. PSAS is currently developing medium-sized sub-orbital rockets with the eventual goal of inserting nanosatellites (satellites that weigh less than 10 kg) into orbit. Because achieving orbit requires a navigation system able to guide the rocket along an orbital trajectory, PSAS is pioneering an… (more…)

Divitron's Aura is a light weight, portable field test and monitoring instrument for terrestrial digital video broadcasting (DVB-T) network builders and operators. The device, which is basically a “tablet PC” with an integrated Linux-controlled DVB-T receiver and instrumentation subsystem, is used for testing and verifying DVB-T broadcast signal quality and coverage area. (more…)

Tuesday June 10, 2003 may well go down in history as the date when autonomous mobile robots first began exchanging email with each other over the Internet. (more…)

Recently, new attacks on the ELC's Platform Standard efforts have become rather public. Criticism has come from Karim Yaghmour in his new book, Building Embedded Linux Systems, and in his article on oreillynet, and in the… (more…)

The picture below essentially demonstrates the current working state of my Travelmate C100 in Linux. The EMR stylus is working, as is suspend/resume (to disk only), X in rotated mode, and wireless. It now fits my main uses, which are reading academic papers, writing notes, and doing calculations. (more…)

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This highly detailed 101-page how-to article provides the necessary background and procedures to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based software router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities. The article explains how to create the necessary toolchain for compiling both programs and the Linux kernel, and shows how, starting from scratch, you… (more…)

Overview: Making PCs Easier to Set Up and Use

I have a friend — an energetic senior citizen named Pat. About a year ago, she and her husband Darryl decided to buy a new computer system — a computer, printer, scanner, and digital camera, so that they could send e-mail to their friends and family, browse the Web, view online stock quotes, and print and e-mail digital photos. (more…)

U.S. Robotics unveiled a small Linux-based router with VPN (virtual private network) and NAS (network attached storage) capabilities at SuperComm 2003 in June, 2003. The device is the first member of a new family of secure storage/router products based on Intel's XScale network processors running embedded Linux, according to U.S. (more…)

How to build and install web and FTP servers, plus some development tools, on the CerfCube.

The CerfCube is an embedded system manufactured by Intrinsyc. It is based on an ARM processor, which is the processor used in many PDAs. In this article I first explain how to turn a CerfCube into an FTP and HTTP server. (more…)

The results of LinuxDevices.com's annual Embedded Linux Market Survey are now in, and they provide an interesting profile of the ascendant embedded Linux software market. This year's online survey was conducted over a three month period — from November 2002 through January 2003 — and had nearly 600 participants, the bulk of whom categorize themselves as embedded system software, hardware, or… (more…)

The embedded software build-or-buy tradeoff

For embedded systems, the build-or-buy decision is getting pushed down the software component food chain. Embedded systems hardware developers have long embraced commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components to shorten development time and reduce development costs. (more…)