How can you get the cost advantages of PCI and the ruggedness of an industrial platform in one form factor? Use inexpensive DIMM connectors and everyone's favorite OS. (more…)

Monopolist Microsoft has been up to its old tricks of late, publishing a lengthy and one-sided “comparison” of their newly introduced Windows XP Embedded with Embedded Linux. The document, entitled Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Not Embedded Linux, compares XP Embedded to… (more…)

Lineo has issued a further rebuttal to a paper posted by Microsoft on its website, in which Microsoft asserts that Windows XP Embedded is superior to Embedded Linux. Earlier this week, Lineo issued an… (more…)

[Updated Dec. 19, 2001] Microsoft has published an online document entitled Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Not Embedded Linux?, in which embedded XP is compared to Embedded Linux in eight ways. (more…)

At the end of November Microsoft posted a document on its Web site comparing the Windows XP Embedded and embedded Linux operating systems, with the emphasis on the technical and business inferiority of Linux. (more…)

Microsoft recently posted a document on its website which compares Windows XP Embedded to Embedded Linux, in an attempt to portray Embedded Linux as inferior from both technical and business perspectives. (more…)

Recently ACUNIA released Wonka, their implementation of the Java language, under a BSD-style license. In this guest column, ACUNIA Chief Technology Officer Steven Buytaert and VM Architect Chris Gray explain the reasons behind the decision . . . (more…)

Getting to know the TCSX-1

They say good things come in small packages. Advantage Business Computer Systems' TCSX-1 Thin Client is one of those good things. Add a keyboard, mouse and VGA monitor to this little box and you have a simple Network, Serial or X Windows terminal. (more…)

Foreword: This article is the fourth in LinuxDevices.com's series of reviews, by software developer Jerry Epplin, of Embedded Linux toolkits. In order to gain insight into the use of each toolkit from the developer's perspective, Epplin builds Embedded Linux OS images for three different x86-based EBX… (more…)

In this guest editorial, consultant and project manager Oliver Fels responds to Microsoft's online comparison of Windows XP Embedded to Embedded Linux . . . (more…)

One oft-touted advantage of Linux is that it supports so many processors. Unlike the Wintel PC world, the world of Linux-based devices is characterized by a dazzling diversity of CPUs — so varied that it's difficult to fathom the breadth and depth of coverage. (more…)

The ZapStation is an audio/video jukebox that digitally stores and plays music and video files transferred from CDs and the Internet, plays DVDs, allows for Internet surfing, and provides daily news from USAToday. The ZapStation connects directly to TVs and stereo receivers, and provides high quality multimedia playback at the touch of a remote control. (more…)

Foreword: This article is the third in LinuxDevices.com's series of reviews, by software developer Jerry Epplin, of Embedded Linux toolkits. In order to gain insight into the use of each toolkit from the developer's perspective, Epplin builds Embedded Linux OS images for three different x86-based EBX… (more…)

“Please don't write anything which will make people want to buy the new pocket Sharp PDA,” implored the product manager. “We don't have enough to sell. And it's not ready.” (more…)

The ideological purity of the open-source software business is being diluted by a new era of pragmatism as start-ups adjust to the economic slump. (more…)