Tel Aviv, Israel — (press release excerpt) — The openMosix Project has announced that a sponsor and founding member of the recently founded Gelato Federation, the Hewlett-Packard Company, has invited the openMosix Team to port openMosix to the Intel IA64 Processor Family. (more…)

Linux's Future in the Embedded Systems Market is an analysis by Venture Development Corporation (VDC) of the current size and future growth of the worldwide market for embedded Linux software solutions. The multiclient study is designed to provide subscribers with relevant and up-to-date market intelligence to support strategic marketing and product planning decisions. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum profiles yet another leading-edge digital audio device that makes use of Linux as its embedded operating system — the Rio Central digital audio center. (more…)

Don Marti, executive editor of Embedded Linux Jounal, offers a rundown of the Linux-based designs he saw on display at the Networld+Interop in (N+I) conference held in Las Vegas this week. Marti writes . . . (more…)

The Embedded Linux Journal has announced the winners of their second annual design contest, which was based on projects using the New Internet Computer (NIC) as a platform. From twenty finalists selected last August who were… (more…)

Natick, Massachusetts — (press release excerpt) — Driven by the interest of embedded developers to use Linux in embedded systems, the question of whether and how Linux can be adapted to satisfy the requirements of real-time application demands continues to gain increased attention. (more…)

[Updated May 12, 2002] Foreword: 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…)

SONICblue's Rio Central is a high-fidelity home stereo component that stores up to 650 CDs (or 6,500 individual songs) on its built-in 40GB hard drive. SONICblue describes the Rio Central as being “As simple to use as a CD player, but as smart as a PC” — a Linux-based PC, that is! (more…)

Stephen Shankland exposes a new controversy between GPL and Microsoft, this time focusing on how 'third-party developers can use Common Internet File Sharing (CIFS), a protocol developed by Microsoft that specifies how Windows PCs share files with servers'. Writing at CNET, Shankland provides a detailed look at the brewing discord and the possible implications for developers using GPL code . (more…)

Los Angeles, CA — (press release excerpt) — Today, IBM and video game developer Butterfly.net announced a breakthrough in providing video games over the Internet, introducing the first-ever computing grid to support the online video gaming market. Dubbed the “Butterfly Grid,” the one-of-its-kind computing system will for the first time enable video game providers to offer gamers the same experience over… (more…)

A recent article entitled “Breakaway of Telecom PDA Service from Microsoft Speeding Up” published by the Korean Electronic Times (May 6, 2002) is said to report that several major Korean wireless telecom service providers are moving away from Microsoft OSes and to Linux (and Palm OS) as their strategic platforms. (more…)

This week at IBM's developerWorks Live! conference in San Francisco, IBM launched a contest called 'Robocode Rumble'. Developers of all levels are being invited to submit their 'Java robots' to IBM's alphaWorks website, where they will find out how well their enty fares through various levels of competition, until the final battle, which is to take place at LinuxWorld this August (in San… (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, MontaVista Software's Kevin Morgan issued a “response” to Dankwardt's article in which he offered “a few clarifications (or points of view)”. (more…)

Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief of RTC Magazine, weighs in with a perspective on the Embedded Linux Consortium's embedded Linux “platform standard” — and on the future of the embedded Linux market. Williams writes . . . (more…)

[Updated 1:00pm PDT] Earlier this week, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum visited the IBM/Citizen Linux WatchPad, which was on display at IBM's developerWorks Live conference in San Francisco. Akihiko Mizutani, a researcher from IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory, demonstrated the capabilities of the device, showing Lehrbaum how the WatchPad scans fingerprints (using a thermal sensor… (more…)