The following is an excerpt of a press release jointly issued by: Philippe Gerum (FR); Karim Yaghmour (CA); Paolo Mantegazza (IT); ABUL (FR); AEL (BE);… (more…)

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

LynuxWorks has raised $4 million in “bridge funding” and is in negotiations with venture companies for additional funding, according to an announcement to be issued later today. The company has also successfully achieved quarter-over-quarter growth for the final two quarters of its fiscal year, which ended April 30, 2002. (more…)

[Note: This article appeared initially on the linux-kernel mailing list (LKML)]

We have released the initial implementation of the Adeos nanokernel. The following is a complete description of its background, its implementation, its API, and its potential uses. (more…)

Olching, Germany — (press release excerpt) — DENX Software Engineering today announced the first release of a new Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK). Our ELDK provides a complete and powerful software development environment for Embedded and Real-Time Systems: (more…)

David Coursey provides an easy-to-understand comparison of Bluetooth vs. WiFi in this article at ZDNet. Coursey offers observations on the two competing wireless standards, and predicts where each will most likely be used in consumer devices . . . (more…)

An announcement from the WISP-Dist project . . .

The WISP-Dist project is pleased to announce its first public release. “WISP-Dist” is a modular embedded Linux distribution for wireless routers, but can be used for other purposes as well. The entire system fits in 8MB flash / 16MB RAM. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com technical editor Jerry Epplin gives his impressions of the latest major book on the subject of using Linux in embedded systems and smart devices: Craig Hollabaugh's Embedded Linux — Hardware, Software, and Interfacing, published by Addison Wesley Professional (ISBN: 0672322269). (more…)

In this LinuxDevices.com whitepaper, Jorge Arellano Cid, the Dillo project's founder, maintainer, and lead developer, introduces the Embedded Linux community to the Dillo project. (more…)

After more than two years of development since the project was founded, Dillo has now matured enough to become a very attractive component for embedded devices. (more…)

First impressions

A system developer planning to use Linux for an embedded design is faced with a number of decisions, not the least of which is whether to use a packaged commercial Embedded Linux distribution or to devise a homebrew solution from the available free tools and components. (more…)

SnapGear has published a technical whitepaper which demystifies some of the issues associated with memory management in uClinux, a version of Linux for deeply embedded systems. The whitepaper is written by David McCullough, a kernel engineer at SnapGear who is currently the maintainer of uClinux's ColdFire distributions and who has contributed patches to upgrade uClinux to the Linux 2.4 kernel. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corp. today released complete embedded Linux solutions for 'Malta' development boards utilizing the MIPS32 4Kc and MIPS64 5Kc processor cores. These cores are ideally suited for a variety of system-on-chip (SOC) embedded applications, such as digital consumer, networking, and office automation systems. (more…)

In this whitepaper, Mack Allison provides an introduction to Asterisk, an open source project which implements a Linux-based Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform. Asterisk turns a Linux system to the task of switching calls, and offers a large number of features to support communication in a business environment. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Tvia, Inc. announced today that it is introducing and demonstrating its newest product, the CyberPro 5600 at Computex Taipei 2002. Optimized for use with LCD displays, the CyberPro5600 blends up to three sources of video from terrestrial broadcast, narrow band telephone lines, cable, satellite and Ethernet and delivers high quality, interactive picture and… (more…)

Lindon, UT; Curitiba, Brazil; Nurenberg, Germany; and Brisbane, CA — (press release excerpt) — Linux industry leaders Caldera International, Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux, Inc., today announced the organization of UnitedLinux, a new initiative that will streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux designed for business. (more…)