Redmond, WA — (press release excerpt) — Applied Microsystems Corp. announces today its entry into the embedded Linux market with the introduction of its popular CodeTEST for Embedded Linux software test and analysis tool suite. CodeTEST for Embedded Linux is engineered to support all variations of embedded Linux — especially MontaVista Linux, the industry's most widely used Linux development platform… (more…)

Düsseldorf, Germany — (press release excerpt) — NEC Corporation announced today that its family of network controllers is now running MontaVista Linux. The availability of Linux as a platform on these next-generation controllers is regarded as an important step to further strengthen NEC's networking devices portfolio. (more…)

IBM has published the August 2002 issue of developerWorks Journal. This issue, which focuses on Linux, covers everything from porting your MFC apps to Linux to mastering Linux debugging techniques. It offers new strategies for developing with technologies like wireless, XML, and Java technologies, as well as with products like IBM's WebSphere and DB2. (more…)

In this special report for ZDNet News, Richard Shim reports on Sharp's introduction of a new Linux-powered handheld for the Japanese market . . . (more…)

Paris, France — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software, Inc. has received an award from the prestigious French publication 'Electronique', which named MontaVista's Linux Professional Edition 2.1 as the 'Best Embedded Tool and Development Solution for 2002'. (more…)

In this technical whitepaper, RTLinux originator Victor Yodaiken details what he perceives to be the disadvantages of dealing with the issue of priority inversion in real-time systems by means of a commonly used software technique known as priority inheritance. Priority inversion refers to the situation when a scheduled task must wait for a lower priority task to complete. (more…)

[Updated June 22, 2002] Earlier this week, CNET editor Stephen Shankland reported that Red Hat has discontinued development of its eCos open source embedded operating system, laying off seven of its nine-member U.K.-based eCos… (more…)

Writing at LinuxWorld.com, Nicholas Petreley explains why he believes GNOME is likely to emerge as the most popular desktop platform. Petreley explains why language support doesn't matter much, why technical merit doesn't necessarily translate to successful software, and why he has a major problem with Trolltech's Qt-licensing scheme . . . (more…)

Brian Jepson reports on the release of 'Rotor for Linux' in this article at O'Reilly Networks. (Rotor is Microsoft's 'shared-source' version of the .NET Framework.) Jepson writes . . . (more…)

Chris Preimesberger and Matt Liotta take a look at Mono, Rotor, and Portable .NET in this interview with key developers published at devX.com . . . (more…)

How well does your operating system juggle 200 threads at once? In this technical article at IBM's developerWorks website, performance expert Ed Bradford tests Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows XP in a thread-management bake-off. Ed puts his systems to the test using a program that exercises a machine's ability to process multiple threads. (more…)

This article at IBM's developerWorks website is the second in a two-part on programming with GNOME 2. In this installment, relative GNOME newbie Daniel Robbins takes a look at the new Glib object system from a new GNOME developer's perspective. By the end of this article, you'll know enough about GNOME to decide if you want to try it for yourself (even if you are a stalwart C fan). (more…)

Version 0.9.12 of uClibc has been announced by Erik Andersen . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.12. This release adds an i960 port, an initial alpha port, fully working mips shared library support (both big and little endian), shared library support fixes for on powerpc, and many other improvements. (more…)

Writing at CNET, Tiffany Kary reports on a Linux-based digital set-top box from Samsung and Liberate that is being introduced at the BroadcastAsia 2002 trade show this week in Singapore. . . (more…)

DesktopLinux.com has proclaimed July 4th, 2002 to be the first annual wIndependence Day. Coinciding with the US Independence Day holiday, wIndependence Day celebrates the burgeoning use of Linux on business, government, educational institution, and personal end-user computer desktops as an alternative to… (more…)