MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that it has been welcomed as a member of the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF). Additionally, MontaVista and Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung announced a contract by which MontaVista will supply embedded Linux for use in “many next generation Samsung devices,” according to Samsung spokespeople. (more…)

A post on the Zaurus mailing list has pointed out that Softfield Technology Inc. (more…)

In this column published by the National Post of Canada, Wynn Quon, a chief technology analyst at Legado Associates, suggests that the SCO threat against Linux is likely to be defeated, and, as a result, will serve to provide a useful validation of Linux and its GPL license. (more…)

CNET News.com site Staff Writer Stephen Shankland today writes that prominent embedded software vendors TimeSys and MontaVista are joining the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum. According to Shankland, “TimeSys, a seller of Linux designed to be embedded into various computing devices, has joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, and its competitor, MontaVista Software, plans to announce a similar move… (more…)

Open source spokesperson and former Debian project leader Bruce Perens spoke at LinuxWorld about legal issues that could impact the work of embedded developers. (more…)

A story has been posted at KernelTrap.org, recapping some recent discussions on the Linux Kernel Mailing List about the relative merits of five journaling filesystems available in the 2.6.0-test2 Linux kernel. (more…)

IBM has published the following ten technical articles and tutorials on its developerWorks website. They cover a range of interesting (though not embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . .

• HTTP compression: coming soon to a server near you? — HTTP compression, a recommendation of the HTTP 1.1 protocol… (more…)

K-Team announced KoreBot, a miniature Linux-based single-board computer (SBC) board designed for mobile robotics and other embedded applications. KoreBot is based on an Intel XScale processor equipped with 64MB RAM and 32MB Flash memory, runs the Familiar Linux distribution from handhelds.org, and includes an extensive… (more…)

In this LinuxDevices.com editorial, embedded developer Jerry Epplin rebuts the recently published Microsoft-funded study that purports to prove that projects using “Windows Embedded” operating system platforms (specifically, Windows CE .NET and Windows XP Embedded) are completed 43% faster and at 68% lower cost,… (more…)

While something smaller certainly may have escaped our notice, LinuxDevices.com searched for the tiniest Linux system at this week's LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, and came up with the Cyclades TS100 device server. (more…)

If you're following the ongoing SCO vs. Linux story, you'll be interested to learn that late yesterday, IBM filed a legal counter-claim against the SCO Group. According to an article at CNET, the IBM 45-page document court filing accuses SCO of violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) under which Linux is released, of violating four IBM software patents, and of interfering with IBM's business by… (more…)

The Linux Terminal Server Project has released version 4.0 with major changes in the build environment intended to increase deployment flexibility. (more…)

TimeSys Corp. announced today that it has joined the CE Linux Forum (CELF), an industry group focused on the advancement of Linux as an open source platform for consumer electronics devices. TimeSys said it will contribute its expertise in real-time embedded Linux toward furthering CELF's goals of improving the operating system's real-time performance, reliability, and power management, and reducing… (more…)

Earlier this month, market research firm Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) released a report which claims embedded development projects based on Microsoft's “Windows Embedded” operating system platforms (specifically, Windows CE .NET and Windows XP Embedded) are completed 43% faster and at 68% lower cost, on average, compared with similar projects… (more…)