Conversations with Lineo's Bryan Sparks and MontaVista's Jim Ready (more…)

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In the September issue, we said we'd help you learn about embedded Linux. And the best way to learn is hands-on, right? At LinuxWorld Expo in August, I ran into David Feldman, CEO of ZF Linux Devices, and we talked about the idea of doing an embedded Linux contest where we would offer our readers one hundred embeddable Linux… (more…)

Dannie Lau, CEO of the company he co-founded in 1999 along with two other UCLA Electrical Engineering graduates, sums up the mission of PhatNoise this way: “As music enthusiasts, we were frustrated by the limited storage and scalability of today's portable digital audio players. So we've gone beyond those concepts and quite literally looked down the road to design products that help users save and sync… (more…)

Overcoming the obstacles of building a lean Linux-based MP3 player. (more…)

Fun and fame: Introducing the Embedded Linux Journal Design Project (more…)

Pay attention; here's the outline for the first Embedded Linux Journal design project. Journal design project (more…)

Does home automation with Linux make sense? The leader of the Linux Home Automation Project describes his system and looks into the future. (more…)

The father of real-time Linux talks to ELJ about the past, present and future of RTLinux. (more…)

Set up your Linux box as a Palm development platform and write your first application. (more…)

Rip it out, make copies, do whatever you have to — just don't lose it! lose it! (more…)

Product overview

The empeg car audio player, now in its second revision, is basically an in-dash digital music player with a capacity of up to 600 hours of high quality music. You load it with downloaded MP3 files from your PC — transferred via USB, Ethernet, or a serial port to a pair of internal laptop-style hard drives — and then you snap it into its docking bay in your car and you're… (more…)

SONICblue describes the ProGear (originally developed by Frontpath, Inc.) as “a wireless portable information appliance targeted to vertical market segments”. The ProGear uses Embedded Linux as its internal operating system, includes a 10.4″ TFT display, and obtains its user input via either a virtual keyboard or handwriting recognition on its touchscreen. (more…)

Product overview

The Ericsson H610 Cordless Web Screen (formerly called the HS210 Cordless Screen Phone), unveiled in prototype form last February at CeBIT (Hannover, Germany), represents one of the first home products to emerge from Ericsson's broad vision of “anywhere, anytime communication” technologies and products. (more…)

RedBoot is a new embedded system debug/bootstrap environment from Red Hat. It is designed to replace the existing debug/boot tools CygMon and GDB stubs. It provides a complete bootstrap environment, including network downloading and debugging. It also provides a simple flash file system for boot images. (more…)

Product overview

Nokia describes its Media Terminal as a powerful “infotainment center” for the home, which allows consumers to gain the benefits of both Internet access and digital broadcasting. The product leans heavily on open technologies including Linux, Mozilla, and HTML, and is based on an internal “x86” PC-like embedded computer architecture. (more…)