Most of us in the Linux Community are aware of the success Linux has been enjoying in the server market. Recent announcements by IBM, Intel, AMD etc about their continued support for Linux in their product offerings is great news and shows the industry is fully behind Linux in other areas beyond the server. (more…)

In the initial publication of “My Linux is smaller than your Linux”, there was an incorrect statement to the effect that uClinux does not provide multi-tasking capabilities due to lack of an MMU in the chips it supports. (That inaccuracy has now been corrected.) (more…)

Unlike many realms of human endeavor, when it comes to designing embedded systems, the goal is often to use as few resources as possible. In embedded systems, less is more, in many ways. Using less resources means less cost, less heat generation, more battery life, more reliability — and best of all, a more successful product. (more…)

Our ongoing Influential Executives Interview Series features influential top-level executives speaking about embedded Linux technology, the embedded Linux marketplace, and their companies' embedded Linux strategies and products. Collect them all! (more…)

Adomo wants a place in your home. Not on top of your TV, or as a firewall or gateway hiding in a closet. What Adomo wants, is to fill your home with a network of low-cost, easy-to-use information appliances. All over the place. And they will all have Linux inside. (more…)

The coming Java-Linux duopoly

I'm not an expert on Linux devices. I'm not even an expert on Linux. I've used Unix and (lately Linux) as an applications developer, and my experience has primarily been with databases and application programming languages. However, I believe that my concurrent exposure to both Java and Linux has given me a few insights that may be worth sharing with those… (more…)

I just spent a couple of days at this year's Applied Computing Conference, held in San Jose, CA. New this year, were several presentations on embedded Linux (see below *). But beyond that not-so-surprising occurrence, there were two things — one very large, and one very small — that REALLY caught my attention . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum recently interviewed Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, with a focus on three embedded Linux topics: (1) Red Hat's current intentions for eCos, an open source embedded OS that Red Hat inherited through its acquisition of Cygnus (Tiemann's former company); (2) the status of EL/IX, a Red Hat proposal for an embedded Linux version of the POSIX API (also produced by Cygnus);… (more…)

In this interview with Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum talks with Bryan about . . .

• Lineo's perspective on the wide range of embedded Linux solution strategies
• Lineo's approach to supporting the full spectrum of embedded applications
• Lineo's open-source philosophy
• Lineo's business and revenue models
• Lineo's corporate growth and the… (more…)

This presentation, on the current state of the Embedded Linux Market, was given by LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum at the Linux Canada Conference and Exposition held in Toronto, Canada on May 16, 2000. (more…)

Response time is rapidly becoming more and more critical in ever-increasing numbers of applications, whether their developers think of them as real-time or not. Developers can now ensure that response times can be predictably met, without depending only on error-prone testing and tuning at the end of the system integration cycle. (more…)

Over the next five years, everything that has anything to do with information, control, or measurement is going to be Internet/Ethernet connected. Electronic devices of all kinds will collaborate to perform tasks with minimal human intervention. Imagine your office printer ordering repair parts, or the vending machine placing a re-stocking order with the warehouse. (more…)

In this interesting and exceptionally thorough “how-to” article, ZDNet editors Eric House and Henry Kingman guide you through the process of creating a Linux firewall using a 486 based PC. House and Kingman cover everything you need to know and do — from where to download the software (Linux Router Project), to how to configure and maintain the resulting system. (more…)

[NOTE: At the Linux Terminal Server Project website, you can find out how to create a Linux based diskless workstation that boots from a network server. Applications include both thin clients and embedded systems. (more…)

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