MontaVista Software will today unveil a free 'Preview Kit' which lets embedded system developers evaluate the capabilities of the company's embedded Linux distribution and tool suite in advance of making a purchase commitment. The free kit demonstrates several key packages and technologies included in MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1, and includes a full MontaVista Linux kernel which runs on a… (more…)

Framingham, MA — (press release excerpt) — IDG World Expo announced today that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo/San Francisco 2002 attendance increased by 12 percent over last year, totaling 20,070. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Metrowerks is releasing a series of tool suites designed to make life easier for Embedded Linux developers, who have traditionally used command-line tools limited to Linux-hosted workstations. Hosted on Windows platforms, CodeWarrior Development Studio, Embedded Linux Edition, is a graphical development environment for creating complex applications that run on… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Fast-Chip and Kenati Technologies announced today the successful integration of Network Persona, Kenati's flagship Embedded Linux platform, with Fast-Chip's DP-MR1 'Multi-Rate development platform', featuring Fast-Chip's PolicyEdge services processor. (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — Finite State Machine Labs, Inc. (FSMLabs) announced the immediate availability of RTLinux/Pro and RTLinux Dev Kit for Cirrus Logic's EP7312 family of high performance low power embedded processors based on the ARM720T core. (more…)

Hong Kong — (press release excerpt) — Valourtech Company Ltd announced today that it has ported its vtLinux embedded Linux operating system to Motorola's DragonBall MX1 wireless application microprocessor. (more…)

The Internet — (press release excerpt) — Today the Xbox Linux project announced that it had succeeded in fully booting Linux on the Microsoft Xbox Gaming System (“Really. No video, but telnet and http”). The free operating system Linux is able to be booted either from flash memory, or (more easily) from a CD inserted into the machine. (more…)

This article at IBM's developerWorks website offers an overview of assembly language programming from a PowerPC perspective, and provides examples for three architectures: IA32 (x86), PowerPC, and PowerPC-64. The article assumes a basic understanding of computer design (for example, you should know that a processor has registers and can access memory) and of operating systems (system calls, exceptions,… (more…)

This online tutorial at IBM's developerWorks website is useful for anyone who is new to Linux or who wants to review or improve their understanding of fundamental Linux concepts, such as copying files, moving files, and creating symbolic and hard links. In this tutorial, Daniel Robbins (President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies, Inc.) begins preparing you for the Linux Professional Institute's 101 exam. (more…)

There are various ways to watch a running user-space program: you can run a debugger on it and step through the program, add print statements, or add a tool to analyze the program. This technical article at IBM's developerWorks website describes methods you can use to debug programs that run on Linux. (more…)

Seen on the comp.sys.handhelds Usenet newsgroup . . .

Seeking about 3 volunteers to test a moving map program for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. The program draws vector maps with serial port NMEA (GPS) input. It also operates on other platforms such as notebook computers, but I'm looking for Zaurus users. (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDG World Expo today announced the winners of the Open Source Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. (more…)

Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt)– Equator Technologies Inc. today announced that its iMMediaTools Software Development Toolkit Version 6.0 and its port of Embedded Linux for BSP-15 processors are now available for software partners. This release will enable Equator's software partners to meet the demand for Linux-based solutions by porting their advanced codecs and other video-centric applications… (more…)

In Part 2 of this two part series at Linux Journal, Joe Edwards, Audin Malmin and Ron Shaker introduce RAID-1. This installment features how to make a RAID-1 swap device and boot from a RAID-1 device, as well as how to use RAID-1 to facilitate disk backups . . . (more…)

IBM demonstrated a new low power PowerPC-based system-on-chip processor running MontaVista Linux at LinuxWorld this week. The new PowerPC based system-on-chip processor, which seems poised to compete with Intel's XScale processors for mobile device design wins, is described in its preliminary data sheet as a “highly integrated device offering high-performance at ultra-low power”. (more…)