The idea

Tired of filling out forms? Nobody can read your handwriting? Is your last name 'Rausch', and no one can spell it? (more…)

Abstract

LynxOS v4.0, the newest release of the POSIX-conformant hard real-time operating system (RTOS), has support for Linux ABI compatibility — where Linux application binaries can run unchanged in the LynxOS environment without necessitating source code recompilation. (more…)

[Note: This article appeared initially on the linux-kernel mailing list (LKML)]

We have released the initial implementation of the Adeos nanokernel. The following is a complete description of its background, its implementation, its API, and its potential uses. (more…)

After more than two years of development since the project was founded, Dillo has now matured enough to become a very attractive component for embedded devices. (more…)

First impressions

A system developer planning to use Linux for an embedded design is faced with a number of decisions, not the least of which is whether to use a packaged commercial Embedded Linux distribution or to devise a homebrew solution from the available free tools and components. (more…)

The Asterisk Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform offers an exciting look at the power and adaptability of the Linux kernel and GNU system. Asterisk turns a GNU/Linux system to the task of switching calls, and offers a large number of features to support communication in the business environment. (more…)

Firstly, under uClinux we don't have Virtual Memory (VM). This means you cannot arbitrarily add memory to an already running process. As VM is usually implemented using a processing unit called a MMU (memory management unit) you will often hear the term NOMMU when traveling in uClinux circles. (more…)

Introduction

Linus Torvalds has announced that enhancements have been made to the Linux kernel to support preemptibility. This set of changes, available as a patch to the Linux kernel, has been maintained by Robert Love, a well-known contributor to the Linux kernel. (more…)

Bigger pie, too many diners?

If Inder Singh, chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) and CEO and Chairman of LynuxWorks, is to be believed, Linux is on the verge of becoming the real… (more…)

Introduction

If you haven't read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen, read it now (or at least the reviews). I liked the book so much I crafted many of my keynote and conference presentations around its findings, delivering speeches at… (more…)

Foreword: In part three of an Embedded Linux Journal series of articles by Kevin Dankwardt on Real-time Linux, Dankwardt reviewed the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and provided some benchmark numbers. Following publication of Dankwardt's article . (more…)

In March 2002 at the Embedded Systems Conference held in San Francisco, CA, the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) rolled out the requisite organizational infrastructure to allow it to begin developing embedded Linux standards. The ELC's primary effort will be to create what is being called the “ELC Platform Specification”, which will formally define a standardized core embedded Linux platform. (more…)

A small company named snom (Berlin, Germany) has recently begun offering a VoIP telephone which uses Linux as its internal software platform. The snom 100 VoIP phone supports various open telephony standards including SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and H.323/H.450, as… (more…)

[Updated May 12, 2002] Foreword: In part three of an Embedded Linux Journal series of articles by Kevin Dankwardt on Real-time Linux, Dankwardt reviewed the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and provided some benchmark numbers. Following publication of Dankwardt's article . (more…)

SONICblue's Rio Central is a high-fidelity home stereo component that stores up to 650 CDs (or 6,500 individual songs) on its built-in 40GB hard drive. SONICblue describes the Rio Central as being “As simple to use as a CD player, but as smart as a PC” — a Linux-based PC, that is! (more…)