Updated May 23, 2005 — Wind River, the world's largest embedded software company, has embarked upon a strategic shift toward embedded Linux, beginning with an Oct. 3, 2003, tools announcement it called “Just the first step.” (more…)

Embedded software giant Wind River announced today that it has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and will participate in the Lab's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Working Group. The announcement continues the company's recent about-face on Linux, an operating system it historically (more…)

Embedded software giant Wind River has signaled it may move away from its proprietary “Tornado” development tools platform, favoring Eclipse, an open technology platform for cross-vendor tools integration popular among embedded Linux developers, as the basis of its future tools products. (more…)

Roku calls its first product, the $499 HD1000, “the world's first high-definition digital media player.” The product displays content from memory cards or networked PCs on High Definition TVs (HDTVs) including LCD and Plasma TVs. The HD1000's open, Linux-based architecture makes it especially interesting to embedded hackers, and Roku encourages such use. (more…)

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced a new initiative today aimed at raising awareness about how the Linux kernel is developed. With the highly-anticipated release of the final Linux 2.6 production kernel due shortly, OSDL is taking a series of steps to increase customer confidence in using Linux, the group said. (more…)

Jim Gettys has released a roadmap for the open source desktop and palmtop. The roadmap is an attempt to create a “sketch of the names and relationships of these technologies and projects, and a glimpse into their status and development,” according to Gettys. (more…)

IBM has published the following fifteen technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its developerWorks and alphaWorks Websites. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com editor Henry Kingman receives quite a few Microsoft files, even from Linux companies. To end run around the data, Kingman suggests Sun's StarOffice 7 as an option. The best thing about StarOffice, says Kingman, is “that it's virtually a clone of Microsoft Office, the defacto standard business software today. (more…)

The Eclipse consortium celebrates its second anniversary this month, and is releasing milestone builds of the third version of its universal platform for tools integration. The Eclipse platform has been downloaded over 18,000 times, and in two short years has spawned an entire “ecosystem” of users and vendors. (more…)

Eben Moglen, General Counselor for the Free Software Foundation, has issued his second statement concerning the recent SCO lawsuits. The statement comprises an entertaining and accessible (for a legal document) summary of SCO's failure to provide either factual or legal support for its lawsuit against IBM alleging copyright infringements. (more…)

Lineo Solutions (Japan) has joined the ARM Connected Community (ACC) and will market its embedded Linux development tools and board support packages (BSPs) to manufacturers that develop products based on ARM cores. The ACC now counts over 250 members. (more…)

MontaVista Software has joined the Super-SH Consortium and will work with Renesas on OEM reference designs that use Renesas's SH-Mobile-V processors and run MontaVista's Consumer Electronics Edition (CEE) embedded Linux distribution. (more…)

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. unveiled a vision and roadmap for a next generation of system BIOS firmware that the company calls “core system software” today, at its Strategy 2004 conference. As defined by Phoenix, CSS is a new category of core system firmware that transcends the boundaries of traditional BIOSes and delivers “extensible firmware that provides the critical foundation of trust, manageability,… (more…)

The Khronos Group announced that LSI Logic, Toshiba, and XCE have joined as Contributing Members, bringing its membership tally to 40 companies. The group, founded in Jan. 2000, focuses on developing and deploying standard APIs for authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. (more…)

Eben Moglen, General Counselor for the Free Software Foundation, has issued his second statement concerning the recent SCO lawsuits. The statement comprises an entertaining and accessible (for a legal document) summary of SCO's failure to provide either factual or legal support for its lawsuit against IBM alleging copyright infringements. (more…)