Vienna, Austria — (press release excerpt) — BMS Bayer Ltd. today announced the availability of EasyDose, the first Linux-based medical embedded device for radiologists. (more…)

Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report on 'SELinux', a Linux-based security module, in this article at Wired . . . (more…)

Kevin Dankwardt attended the Embedded Linux Expo and Conference (ELEC) held June 11, 2002 in Dallas, TX and filed this report with his impressions of the event. Dankwardt writes . . . (more…)

Kevin Dankwardt provides a perspective on Adeos, which is being put forward as a patent-free, GPL alternative approach to adding hard-real-time capability to Linux (among other uses). Dankwardt writes . . . (more…)

The Embedded Linux Expo and Conference (ELEC) was held June 11, 2002 in Dallas. The turn-out for the event was good. (more…)

Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (Irvine, CA) recently introduced the Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server, a compact, Linux-based portable wireless server. About the size of a typical notebook computer, the appliance-like device is intended to make it easy to pack up an entire network and take it on the road. (more…)

Carolyn A. Kenwood of The MITRE Corp. authored this lengthy document assessing open source Linux . . . (more…)

This article from IBM focuses on installing and configuring CVS on Red Hat Linux 7 as a software configuration management (SCM) repository. CVS, the dominant open-source, network-transparent version control system, runs on most platforms, and is included in Linux distributions such as Red Hat Linux 7. (more…)

New Breed software has announced . . .

The release of Brickout — a Breakout clone. Brickout is a ball-and-paddle game where it's your objective to destroy bricks on the screen. (more…)

Oslo, Norway & Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech today announced Shawn Gordon as the winner of its Qtopia Worldwide Developer Contest. His design, called Jabber, is a commercially-available instant messaging client for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D. (more…)

Houston, TX — (press release excerpt) — Quadros Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired the RTXC and Quadros/RTXC operating system technology from Lineo. (more…)

An announcement from the Linux Test Project . . .

The Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20020607.tgz has been released. Visit our website to download the latest version of the test suite, and, for information on test results on pre release, release candidate and stable releases of the kernel. (more…)

The recent announcement of Adeos by Philippe Gerum, Karim Yaghmour, Paolo Mantegazza, and a variety of organizations provides an exciting opportunity to real-time Linux developers. Is there a new, completely GPL, Open Source, solution for hard real-time with Linux? If so, is the solution a sound one? I'll provide my… (more…)

Wakefield, MA — (press release excerpt) — The PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG) has published two new documents, PICMG 2.12 Revision 2.0, the CompactPCI Hot Swap Infrastructure Interface Specification, and an Engineering Change Notice, ECN 001, to the PICMG 2.9 System Management specification defining CompactPCI slot connectivity data. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks, Inc. today announced availability of BlueCat RT, its hybrid, embedded hard real-time Linux operating system. The operating system will be offered as part of a choice of several bundles with tool and service options. BlueCat RT offers a comprehensive solution for systems that only require real-time in a subset of their applications. (more…)