San Ramon, CA — (press release excerpt) — SBE Inc. today announced the immediate availability of its HighWire 400p/M DKL, a hardware/software developers kit for embedded Linux applications. The HW400p/M DKL combines SBE's HW400p/M PCI core processor with a complete TimeSys embedded Linux software developers kit including the enhanced TimeSys GPL Linux kernel and a complete cross development tool chain. (more…)

Tempe, AZ — (press release excerpt) — Motorola Computer Group today launched the 5385 CompactPCI controller blade, designed to deliver the extreme levels of performance and bandwidth demanded by many of today's telecom, industrial control and medical imaging applications. Featuring a 1.2 GHz Mobile Intel Pentium III-M processor, the 5385 is Motorola's fastest ever CompactPCI board. (more…)

Columbia, MD — (press release excerpt) — Applied Data Systems (ADS) has announced the Bitsy X, a compact (3 x 5 in.) full-featured single board computer (SBC) based a 400 MHz Intel PXA250 system-on-chip XScale processor with an SA-1111 companion chip. The Bitsy-X is designed for PDA/handheld, instrumentation, medical monitoring, and other battery-powered embedded applications. (more…)

Irvine, CA — (press release excerpt) — TransDimension Inc. and Intrinsyc Software Inc. today announced that they successfully demonstrated the TransDimension USB On-The-Go (OTG) host/peripheral controller, the OTG243, with Intrinsyc's CerfPDA development platform at the USB 2.0 Developer's Conference. (more…)

Singapore — (press release excerpt) — The Data Storage Institute (DSI) today released the HyperSCSI protocol and reference implementation code into open source. HyperSCSI is a new storage protocol designed for the transfer of SCSI data and commands over networks. The current protocol release runs on Ethernet-based networks. (more…)

Matthew R. Harris, CEO of Embedix, Inc. (Lineo), has written a suggested revision of the GNU General Public License. Note that it is not an official version of the GNU General Public License, and is published at this time for informational purposes only. Harris, a stong proponent of the GPL, believes that in its current form it is difficult to understand and contains a number of ambiguities. (more…)

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.15. This release fixes a number of problems that have turned up since the last release. The good news is that uClibc now passes all tests in the perl 5.8 and Python 2.2.1 test suites, both with and without pthreads. (more…)

From Mozilla.org . . .

Mozilla 1.1 has been released. Changes in this version include improvement to application and layout performance, stability, web site compatibility and more. For Linux users, the new version introduces 'fullscreen mode' along with improved filtering and a new directory button. (more…)

In this 47-page whitepaper, Matt Asay (“former Linux naysayer-turned-disciple”) analyzes the GNU General Public License (GPL), picking apart what it means (and does not mean) for users, and whether it is enforceable. Asay also details how its terms inhibit and foster innovation, and why we should care. (more…)

SD Times editor Alan Zeichick examines the current state of Red Hat's eCos operating system now that Red Hat has backed away from promoting it, and discusses the implications of eCos version 2 now being licensed under a modified version of the GPL. Zeichick writes . . . (more…)

In this online EE Times article, John Mehaffey (of MontaVista Software) details the use of Linux in telecom equipment designs. Mehaffey examines Open Source Development Lab's (OSDL) efforts to set standards to bring Linux into compliance for 'Carrier Grade' applications . . . (more…)

Abstract

Increasingly, software is going 'open source,' with increasingly good results. Linux, the most visible of open-source software, is rapidly gaining ground in both embedded and server software markets, and even begins to make inroads on the desktop. (more…)

NewsForge editor Robin “Roblimo” Miller reports that the second IBM Linux Scholar Challenge is accepting registrations through October 31. Complete contest rules are available here (pdf file) . (more…)

Writing at Linux Journal, Daniel Solin provides an informative tutorial focused on installing and testing JDK and Resin to set up a Java application server. Solin writes . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Lexra announces today the industry's highest performance processor based on the MIPS32 architecture for use in its SOCs for High-Touch packet processing applications. (more…)