Jonathan Krim of the Washington Post reports on efforts by Microsoft to dissuade open source software use in government agencies and in defense projects . . . (more…)

In a recently completed report entitled Linux's Future in the Embedded Systems Market, Venture Development Corp. (VDC) studied the size and future growth trends of the worldwide market for Embedded Linux software solutions. VDC has provided LinuxDevices.com with the vendor rankings which resulted from responses to VDC's questions as to which Linux distributions are being used in current embedded… (more…)

Choices in the Linux-friendly Single-Board Computer (SBC) market aren't just growing — they're exploding, as boards add features and power. Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices.com (and cofounder and former CTO of Ampro Computers Inc.), lays out your options in this article at Embedded Linux… (more…)

Sony today released a Linux kit for the PlayStation2 in Europe. James Middleton reports at Vnunet.com . . . (more…)

For several years, Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann has described Linux and open source software as “disruptive technologies” that were destined to “revolutionize the embedded software market, destroying the old status quo and replacing it with a newer, better status quo”. But what wasn't clear, was what form the “revolution” would take. (more…)

Newark, CA — (press release excerpt)– Diamond Systems announced its new embedded Linux distribution, 'Tiny Linux', for its Prometheus PC/104 CPU board. Tiny Linux offers developers a pre-built and ready-to-use full-featured Linux distribution with a file size of only 10MB and a super-small RAM requirement of only… (more…)

Vancouver, British Columbia — (press release excerpt) — IDELIX Software Inc. today released Version 2.0 of the Pliable Display Technology (PDT) Software Development Kit featuring advanced PDT functionality including the 'MDLC' in-place user interface and additional support for platforms without accelerated graphics hardware. (more…)

Mississauga, ON — (press release excerpt) — Certicom today announced that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has licensed Certicom security solutions for its OMAP wireless platform. TI's OMAP platform, a highly advanced processing architecture, sits as the core of 2.5G and 3G mobile devices, including wireless handsets, PDAs and advanced mobile Internet appliances. (more…)

Introduction

If you haven't read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen, read it now (or at least the reviews). I liked the book so much I crafted many of my keynote and conference presentations around its findings, delivering speeches at… (more…)

Flustered by clusters? Take this free online clustering tutorial (from IBM) to learn what clusters are and also how to achieve high availability, failover, redundancy, and replication. For added measure, you'll also learn resiliency, load balancing, CSM, and resource sharing. (more…)

[Updated 4:00 pm PDT] Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — SSC Publications today announced the May/June 2002 issue will be the final stand-alone print edition of Embedded Linux Journal. The content will now be “embedded” in Linux Journal, as a monthly feature section. (more…)

Beaverton, OR — (press release excerpt) — Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) today announced that telecommunications industry leader Ericsson has been added to its roster of members aligned to guide Linux development for the telecommunications market segment. Ericsson will participate in the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux Working Group established earlier this year. (more…)

In part three of an Embedded Linux Journal series of articles by Kevin Dankwardt on Real-time Linux, Dankwardt reviewed the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and provided some benchmark numbers. Following publication of Dankwardt's article . (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today released complete embedded Linux solutions for NEC Electronics Inc.'s 'Rockhopper' development systems for embedded engineers utilizing NEC's VR5432 and VR5500 64-bit MIPS RISC microprocessors. The VR5432 and VR5500 MIPS-based RISC microprocessors target for low-power, high performance devices such as digital consumer products, network… (more…)

Seoul, Korea — (press release excerpt) — Responding to user demand, Hancom Linux today announced the availability of a German edition of Hancom Mobile Office, the productivity suite for Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500G. Today's announcement means that the users of the German Zaurus version will now be able to fully experience the real power of the Linux-based handheld device created by Sharp. (more…)