An announcement from the GCC Developer's Summit . . .

We are happy to announce that the GCC Developer's Summit is now officially going ahead and will take place from May 25th to May 27th, 2003 in Ottawa, Canada. The GCC Developers Summit is an opportunity for the core developers of all parts of the GNU Compiler Collection to meet. (more…)

Force Computers has announced a tiny — but powerful — computer module that is based single or dual 800 MHz PowerPC 750FX processors and is built to the “processor PCI mezzanine card” (PrPMC) form-factor (5.9 in. x 2.9 in.) specification. The module comes with ready-to-use support for operation under either embedded Linux or VxWorks. (more…)

According to a “quick survey” taken during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website, developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable, and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded systems and devices. (more…)

[Updated 5:45 pm PST] — In a recently concluded survey of embedded developer preferences, Evans Data Corp. (EDC) found that Embedded Linux remains the top embedded OS choice among developers, but that developers are not particularly satisfied with the available Embedded Linux toolsets. (more…)

An announcement from the uClibc project . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.19. This is once again primarily a bug-fix release. Several critical problems with system calls were fixed, the pthreads library was improved, debugging of applications using uClibc's pthreads library is now possible (requires compiling gdb 5.3 or newer using… (more…)

Internet Security Systems (ISS) X-Force reported today that it has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). Sendmail is the most common MTA and has been documented to handle between 50% and 75% of all Internet email traffic, ISS said. (more…)

Reasoning Inc. is making the results of its defect inspection of the Linux TCP/IP protocol stack available for public download. The study, first reported last month, concluded that the TCP/IP protocol stack implementation in Linux kernel version 2.4.19 exhibited a very low defect density as compared to several commercial… (more…)

Texas Instruments (TI) says the latest additions to its TCS family of chipsets for mobile devices offer the industry's first hardware-based security features, thereby providing the capability for enhanced protection against viruses and improved security of m-commerce and financial transactions. (more…)

Linux Magazine has published an interesting interview with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. The discussion ranges widely and offers some insight into Torvalds' personality, thought process, and approach to decisions which impact the evolution of the Linux kernel. Topics covered include: Linux's USB, memory management, and virtual memory support; what the next release will be called (2.6 or 3.0?),… (more…)

(PR excerpt) — Microcross today released GNU X-Tools ARM / Thumb Toolsuite v3.2, which now supports all ARM variants. This GNU distribution is the latest stable toolsuite based on GNU GCC v3.2 and is derived from the standard distribution of GNU tools, which supports more hosts and target processors than any embedded development toolsuite in existence. (more…)

Electronic Times Asia reports that 46% of embedded developers are currently using 32-bit microprocessors in their designs and 55% plan to use them in future projects, according to a recently completed study entitled Embedded Systems Development Trends: Asia. Additionally, 31% of the developers polled are currently using VxWorks and 21% percent are using Linux, the study indicated. (more…)

In a recently concluded survey of embedded developer preferences, Evans Data Corp. (EDC) found that Embedded Linux remains the top embedded OS choice among developers, but that developers are not particularly satisfied with the available Embedded Linux toolsets. (more…)

A three-day Hands-On Embedded and Real-Time Linux course will be offered by UC Berkeley Extension from March 24-26, 2003. The course focuses on how Linux has been adapted for use in embedded environments, both PC and non-PC. Through extensive hands-on lab work, participants will learn how to install a cross-development environment, build a compact version of Linux for an embedded device, install the… (more…)

With the lackluster year of 2002 now out of the way, the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market is poised for growth this year as manufacturers adjust their strategies to focus on expanding the market. According to high-tech market research firm, In-Stat/MDR, while the weak global economy, continuing erosion of US consumer confidence, and lack of corporate IT spending were the major contributors to lower… (more…)

The Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C) has announced the release of the first of several specifications it is developing, which are collectively intended to help create a standardized platform for in-vehicle computing and communications functions and devices. (more…)