How do you harness a satellite control system written in three languages, on four development platforms, and deployed to multiple client environments? With open source, naturally! When one wrong move can cost millions, you must rely on teamwork, smart design, and open standards to keep the project — if not the satellite — from going down in flames. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — TimeSys Corporation and ADI Engineering Inc. today announced a partnership through which TimeSys Linux has been named as the exclusive Linux distribution for ADI's family of XScale development platforms. Together, TimeSys and ADI will provide end-to-end embedded Linux solutions for the design, development, and rapid deployment of next generation data communications, networking, and… (more…)

Seoul, Korea — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Electronics of Korea has formally launched the Korean version of the Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA. In creating the Korean version of the Zaurus, Sharp collaborated with PalmPalm Technology Inc. (Seoul, Korea) in order to optimize the Linux PDA's application suite for the Korean language and market. (more…)

[Updated 8:30 AM PDT] ZDNet and The Register are reporting that the Xbox Linux Project has succeeded in turning the Microsoft's Xbox into a PC desktop computer running SuSE 8.0 . . . (more…)

IBM has assembled a collection of XML resources from developerWorks and IBM product sites which includes Web-based tutorials, on-demand Webcasts, classes in various locations, an online XML pre-certification test, offers for developerWorks CDs with XML tools and technical materials, and direct links to product downloads of IBM tools and middleware from WebSphere, DB2, and Lotus. (more…)

The Boston Consulting Group and OSDN are pleased to present the interactive Linux Kernel Map. Through the ingenious efforts of Paul 'Rusty' Russell and Martin Pool, the free software and open source communities can now get a detailed view of the structure of the the Linux kernel. We hope that the community will take the code for this project and expand the functionality of this map and also apply it to… (more…)

Like any organism, databases must evolve when dropped into a new environment. A new type of DBMS, the in-memory database system (IMDS), represents the latest step in adaptation to embedded systems. Designed to meet the performance needs and resource availability in embedded systems, IMDSes reside entirely in memory–they never go to disk. (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — the uClinux-based 'SnapGear Lite' has Linux Journal magazine's 2002 Editor's Choice Award for best server appliance. (more…)

Royal Philips Electronics announced a new digital multimedia reference platform based on Intel's PXA250 XScale architecture processors. The 'Pronto++ Software & Systems' platform, which is intended to help developers create next-generation interactive digital audio and video devices, consists of reference hardware, a complete stack of enabling software, and multimedia services, and is said to be geared… (more…)

Writing at CNET, Matthew Broersma reports that Monday's release of 'Tremor', a version of the Ogg Vorbis player that does not require a floating-point unit, could pave the way for portable digital audio players to support the open source alternative format to MP3. Broersma writes . . . (more…)

Hungerford, Berkshire, UK — (press release excerpt) — Feabhas announced a major technical seminar on the use of Linux in embedded systems. Entitled “Embed with Linux?” the seminar will run at the Madejski Stadium, Reading on October 31, 2002. The intent of the day is to openly position Linux as a target environment for real-time embedded applications, and to present its shortcomings (e.g. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Jungo Software Technologies Inc. today announced availability of its OpenRG software for the Intel IXP425 network processor family, to speed development of advanced integrated access devices (IAD), routers, and residential and SOHO gateways. (more…)

[Updated 1:00 pm PDT] Both Reuters and IDG news services are reporting today that Sony has unveiled a new Internet-connected personal video recorder (PVR), dubbed the 'Cocoon'. Like TiVo, which pioneered the PVR market, the Cocoon is powered by an Embedded Linux operating system. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced it has been chosen as one of Communication Systems Design magazine's 'Comet' companies for 2002. (more…)

San Jose, CA — Jungo today announced the availability of Version 5.20 of its driver development suite. In this latest release, Jungo adds support for the Windows Driver Model (WDM) and provides Plug-and-Play and Power Management events handling, for enabling both improved control of hardware devices, and better integration with the operating system. (more…)