An article at ZDNet provides an update on IBM's “Blue Gene” project, an attempt to create the world's first petaflop-level supercomputer (one quadrillion calculations per second) using some 64,000-plus embedded processors. For now, the super-computer is being simulated on a giant Linux cluster. (more…)

October 31, 2003 is LinuxDevices.com's 4th birthday. The site was founded on Halloween, 1999. Here are some key milestones in the history of LinuxDevices.com . . .

• Oct. 31, 1999: LinuxDevices.com… (more…)

Like The Little Engine That Could, tiny Oslo-based Trolltech today unveiled a Linux-based challenge to Symbian's and Microsoft's domination of the rapidly… (more…)

Trolltech has announced that Motorola's much anticipated A760 smartphone will be based on Trolltech's Qt/Embedded application development framework. (more…)

The world's most popular embedded webserver has gained something developers have long wished for: support for a first-rate SSL library designed specifically for embedded use. This means that devices needing to serve secure, encrypted web pages can now do so without the addition of significant system resources. (more…)

An article at RTC Magazine by John Mehaffey of MontaVista discusses runtime application patching, a method of modifying running applications on systems that can not be restarted due to availability requirements. The technique can be used to upgrade software, fix bugs, or even to temporarily add debugging routines. (more…)

An article at Tech News World takes a bullish view of embedded Linux in consumer electronics (CE) compared with the outlook for Microsoft operating systems in the same space. (more…)

Simtec Electronics has launched a mini-ITX based evaluation board that, in the highest specification of several available configurations, draws just 2 watts. The Simtec Samsung 2410 evaluation board is based on a Samsung S3C2410 ARM9 processor and is supplied with a Linux kernel, Debian cross-development environment,… (more…)

NEC Electronics Corp. and ARM Ltd. are teaming up to develop and market a “next-generation” multiprocessor CPU core based on symmetric multi-processor (SMP) technology. The companies say the collaboration will leverage the broad range of existing software for the ARM processor core family, along with NEC's multiprocessing technology. (more…)

Payment infrastructure and transaction management specialist Trintech Group Plc reports that its embedded Linux based PIN Entry Device (PED) has been certified by VISA as a secure PED. (more…)

Display and interface specialist Ultratronik has added Linux tool chain support to its Ultratronic Man-Machine-Interface (MMI) Concept, and now includes an embedded Linux operating system with its MMI Starter Kit, which it claims can enable fast implementations of operator terminals based on CompactFlash and I2C-Bus technology. (more…)

Quest's Automation Network X-Change (AN-X) family of embedded Linux devices attaches PCs and other devices to various kinds of automation networks. Our “Device Profile” includes a description and photos of the embedded computer hardware and also spotlights the developer's interesting dual-kernel design and candid comments about… (more…)

The worldwide market for handheld devices grew in the third quarter of 2003, but overall sales for 2003 are likely to end up lower than 2002, according to market analyst IDC. The news comes as part of IDC's “Worldwide Handheld QView” quarterly report released this week. (more…)

Semiconductor distributor The Memec Group and embedded Linux and eCos consulting firm Mind have collaborated on a port of Linux and RedBoot to Memec's Virtex-II Pro Development Board. The board is used to design and verify applications based on the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) family. (more…)

Yesterday's release of Linux kernel 2.6.0-test9 offers the “last big chance” for input on the next stable Linux kernel, according to Linux originator Linus Torvalds as quoted in a press release from the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). This suggests that Torvalds will produce just one more test release — 2.6.0-test10 — which, if no show-stoppers emerge, he will likely rename as 2.6.0 and turn over to… (more…)