Zultys Technologies has begun shipping a new IP phone that the company says is built 100 percent on open technologies, including “a highly stable real-time Linux operating system.” The device, called the “ZIP 4×4”, is said to be compatible with any IP telephony system using SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), with support for advanced features such as line-rate Ethernet switching, voice encryption, and… (more…)

Botech's “Hubit” is a small Linux-based “black box” type device that resides on the web and interfaces to various industrial field buses, allowing remote web-based supervision of building automation and industrial processes. (more…)

Foreword: The RTLinux dual-kernel operating system was first introduced back in 1995. Today, RTLinux is well known worldwide as a means to gain “hard real-time” performance from a Linux-based system environment. In this article, Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, and Cort Dougan — three key figures in the creation, evolution, and maintenance of RTLinux — summarize the state of RTLinux… (more…)

Abstract

This article is based on a masters thesis written by Martin Andersson and Jens-Henrik Lindskov. The work was carried out at Axis Communications AB during autumn 2002. (more…)

SCO is the thief who puts a gun to his own head and says give me your money or I'll shoot.

I haven't read the filings yet, but it sounds as if SCO's main claim is that IBM (and perhaps others) violated their non-disclosure agreements by allowing employees who had seen the Unix source code to work on Linux. (more…)

I have been given a copy of an article, supposedly to run in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow, which reports that Caldera Systems (which now does business as the SCO group) has filed suit agaist IBM for multibillion-dollar damages over supposed disclosure of SCO's intellectual property to what SCO calls the “free software community”. (more…)

Venture Development Corp. (VDC) recently completed a market analysis study titled The 2002/2003 Embedded Software Strategic Market Intelligence Program: Volume II: Embedded Operating Systems, Software Development Tools, Design Automation Tools, Test Automation Tools, and Database Management Solutions for Embedded Systems. (more…)

According to a “quick survey” taken during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website, developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable, and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded systems and devices. (more…)

In a recently concluded survey of embedded developer preferences, Evans Data Corp. (EDC) found that Embedded Linux remains the top embedded OS choice among developers, but that developers are not particularly satisfied with the available Embedded Linux toolsets. (more…)

How do you fit square pegs into round holes? Get smaller pegs!

When I first thought of this case mod, there were only two responses, cool! Or why? The answer to why is simple: cause I can! (more…)

MaXXan characterizes its Linux-powered SG100 Storage Gateway system as a tightly integrated, easily deployed, storage gateway solution which meets the needs of companies' converging NAS (network attached storage) and SAN (storage area network) storage requirements. (more…)

Where would you be if Free Software went away tomorrow? Personally, I'd be sunk — my daily toolkit includes bash, vim, ssh, Mozilla, AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, and Perl. That doesn't mention the countless underlying tools and libraries that come into play. Without Perl, this publishing system would be gone. (more…)

SyncServer 1000 is a small modem-like Linux appliance made by The Software Group Ltd. (TSG) that offers easy integration of “legacy” Wide Area Networks (WANs) with IP networks. The device is intended to allow companies to transparently convert older communications transport protocols (such as X.25, Frame Relay, and SNA) to TCP/IP, giving legacy applications direct access to IP-based LANs, intranets, and… (more…)

uCLinux is a derivative of the Linux 2.0 kernel that is intended for microcontrollers without memory management units (MMUs). uCLinux offers free, open-source code with no royalties; a small code footprint suitable for embedded and portable applications; a standard Linux API (with minor differences); high performance C libraries with a small footprint; and a variety of filesystems, including NFS, ext2,… (more…)

• What is a platform?

  A platform is a combination of hardware and software, which constitutes an embedded computer. The ELC Platform specification precisely describes a platform's software requirements (from an application programming interface (API) point of view) that are needed by any distribution of the Linux operating system intended for use on hardware that seeks to be… (more…)