In late November, 2001, an industry colleague, knowing that I had an interest in the competitive stance between Linux and Microsoft, sent me a document titled 'Partner Guide: Competing with Linux'. This document was produced by Microsoft in June 2001. It appears to be a training course for Microsoft partners who are obviously facing increasing competition from Linux. (more…)

PXELINUX can be used to boot a diskless Linux device over a network. Matt Butcher, who uses PXELINUX to boot set-top boxes, explains how PXELINUX works and how to use it in this interesting technical “HOWTO” article. (more…)

Features

• Real Time and Linux, by Kevin Dankwardt — What is real time? This article, first of a three-part series, introduces the benchmarks we'll run on real-time Linux version in the next two issues. (more…)

BlueCat 4.0 and RT, VT 900 Set-Top Box, DeviceGate-E gateway, Zaurus SL-5000D (more…)

Readers bite back.

Seal It, Don't Hack It (more…)

If it's still an “idiot box” after this contest, you have nobody to blame but yourself. (more…)

X Windows and GTK+ are not the bloated monsters you think they are. Here's how we modified GTK+/X for our device's GUI. (more…)

This complete palmtop suite offers handwriting recognition, a calendar, an address book, and everything you need in a PDA. (more…)

[Updated Feb. 4, 2002] What is real time? This article, first of a three-part series, introduces the benchmarks we'll run on real-time Linux version in the next two issues. (more…)

Web browsers aren't the only clients that need to talk HTTP. Get information from web servers and even load complete software updates with this tiny, easy-to-use HTTP client library which is suitable for use in embedded Linux based applications. (more…)

Inlambrica is rolling out a network management platform with a difference — the package manager is a PostgreSQL database. ELJ's Phil Hughes asks Alfredo Delgado about Linux, databases and business. (more…)

Here are the details on the new Linux4.TV development kit we're giving away in our development contest. Find out about MPEG playback, video capture, HTML-based interface and more. (more…)

Achieve five nines reliability with the bonding network driver and the high availability dæmon. (more…)

Embedded development instructor Ed Skinner offers philosophy and practical advice in an introductory developer class. (more…)

A vehicle-based embedded Linux system with nationwide wireless networking and GPS is a big task, right? Make it approachable by starting with the Earthlink SPARK system. (more…)