Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Transmeta Corp. today announced the availability of the Crusoe TM5800 System Development Kit, which will enable design engineers to quickly develop new mobile and embedded computing platforms using the Crusoe processor. (more…)

From an announcement on Trolltech's website . . .

A tentative roadmap for the releases of future versions of Qtopia, designed to inform customers, users, and most importantly, developers of the changes expected to occur in the coming versions of Qtopia, has been released. (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release excerpt) — Meeting nine times since kickoff in March, the Embedded Linux Consortium's Core Platform Working Group has achieved consensus on a strawman specification. The document will soon circulate for comment among member companies under the organization's intellectual property rules. (more…)

This ZDNet special report features stories and news from the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco. Stories discuss Sun's new server product and Linux strategy, IBM's partnership with VA Software, Red Hat's targeting AMD's Hammer family of processors with a server product, proposed legislation to foster open source adoption, and more!

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[Updated Aug. 14, 2002] San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — the Free Standards Group announced that three leading Linux distributions — MandrakeSoft, Red Hat, and SuSE — have become Linux Standard Base (LSB) certified. [Note: LinuxDevices.com received an earlier announcement indicating that the following six additional distributions were certified, but apparently… (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a non-profit organization funded by the Korean government, today unveiled a suite of Embedded Linux technologies and middleware which it plans to license to manufacturing companies within Korea and elsewhere. (more…)

[Updated 2:45pm PDT] San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux Working Group today delivered the Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition V1.0 and Carrier Grade Linux Architecture Specification V1.0. The CGL Requirements Definition incorporates comments from the industry and the developer community received through the OSDL developer site. (more…)

From the floor of LinuxWorld Expo . . .

If you head on over to the Sharp Electronics Booth, #683, Sharp is selling the Zaurus SL-5500 retail version for (US) $299. They only have about 1000 units left, so hurry and get yours today! (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — LTrix Engineering today announced the release of lice, a professional debugger for engineers developing device drivers, customizing the kernel for embedded systems, and working on the kernel. (more…)

Writing for ZDNet UK, Matthew Broersma reports on the latest progress of porting Linux to the Xbox . . . (more…)

Woburn, MS — (press release excerpt) — SensAble Technologies, Inc. today announced immediate availability of GHOST (General Haptics Open Software Toolkit) Version 4 which for the first time provides support for the Red Hat Linux and other platforms. (more…)

In Part 1 of this two part series at Linux Journal, Joe Edwards, Audin Malmin and Ron Shaker introduce RAID-1 — when to use it, and how to make a RAID-1 device for an ext2 partition. They write . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech previewed version 3.1 of Qt at LinuxWorld today. This new version is particularly noteworthy because it gives developers and corporate IT professionals — for the first time — a way to gradually migrate from the limited world of Motif and MFC over to the single-source, multiplatform nirvana of Qt. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat and AMD today announced that Red Hat will offer support for the upcoming AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon processors based on AMD's Hammer technology in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. Red Hat will provide native 64-bit support for processors based on AMD's x86-64 technology, while providing support for existing 32-bit Linux-based applications. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech and i3 micro technology today announced that Qt/Embedded, Trolltech's compact embedded Linux version of the Qt toolkit, will be included in i3's Mood Box, a set-top box. (more…)