Mountain View, CA — (press release excerpt) — Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services to assist the Mozilla community, today announced the release of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release of the Mozilla software. (more…)

Embedded software vendor LynuxWorks says the newest release of LynxOS, their proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS), has achieved Linux ABI compatibility — allowing unmodified Linux application binaries to run on LynxOS (without requiring recompilation). This whitepaper by Arun Subbarao, Director of Software Engineering for LynuxWorks, examines the architecture, technology, performance… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Royal Philips Electronics today announced one of the semiconductor industry's first complete USB “On-The-Go” (OTG) system developers kits. Based on Philips OTG ICs, the kit simplifies addition of USB OTG to handheld and mobile devices using the Intel PXA250 applications processor with Intel XScale technology. (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Telrad Connegy announced the CNS 3200e, a server-based LAN telephony system derived from the company's CNS 3200 Hosted Telephony System and i.Picasso 6000 IP telephone. The CNS 3200e is an applications-oriented LAN telephony system that scales without the limitations found on traditional and competitive systems. (more…)

Lincoln, MA — (press release excerpt) — Sleepycat Software announced today that its embedded open source XML data management engine, Berkeley DB XML, is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2002. Berkeley DB XML will provide the first truly embedded, high performance XML database system. (more…)

An announcement from the OPIE team . . .

Being the first completely open source GUI platform for Linux-based PDAs, the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (OPIE) presents its first official 0.9 release at this year's LinuxTag event being held June 6-9, 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany. (more…)

Irvine, CA — (press release excerpt) — Broadcom Corporation today announced that it is sampling the BCM112x line of highly integrated, single-core MIPS64 processors. The new processors target high-volume, cost-sensitive segments within next generation networking, wireless communications, storage equipment, server/web appliance and printer/imaging markets. (more…)

New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems today announced the integration into the NetBSD source tree of support for Broadcom's BCM1250, the first product in Broadcom's SiByte new family of high-performance, low-power, highly-integrated processors for networking, wireless communications, storage, appliance, and imaging applications. (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — SSH Communications Security today announced an integrated VPN and firewall security toolkit optimized for network edge and network access devices. The new toolkit supports VxWorks, Nucleus, Linux, and NetBSD. (more…)

Jim Turley ponders what life would be like if the principles behind open source software were to be applied to hardware, in this article for Embedded Systems Programming . . . (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Infineon Technologies today introduced the EasyPort broadband communications processor family. Based on a powerful 64-bit CPU core subsystem and featuring extensive packet and ATM cell processing functionality, EasyPort provides the compute power and flexibility for data and voice/data Integrated Access Device (IAD) systems, small and medium… (more…)

Abstract

LynxOS v4.0, the newest release of the POSIX-conformant hard real-time operating system (RTOS), has support for Linux ABI compatibility — where Linux application binaries can run unchanged in the LynxOS environment without necessitating source code recompilation. (more…)

O'Reilly editor Andy Oram offers his perspective on ADEOS in this online article at the O'Reilly Network . . . (more…)

By Rick Lehrbaum, LinuxDevices.com Executive Editor . . .

[Updated June 3, 2002, 10:30am PDT] (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) and Jungo Software Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of a jointly developed platform for wireless LAN, and SOHO and residential gateways. The platform is based on the combination of Jungo's OpenRG Linux-based software stack and IDT's RC32334 integrated communications processor. (more…)