In this guest column written for ZDNet, Michael A. Olson, president and CEO of Sleepycat Software (the developer of the open-source Berkeley DB, an embedded database engine), offers a perspective on the business merits of Open Source Software . . . (more…)

In this guest column written for ZDNet, Michael A. Olson, president and CEO of Sleepycat Software (the developer of the open-source Berkeley DB, an embedded database engine), offers a perspective on the business merits of Open Source Software . . . (more…)

At the recent Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, I attended a meeting/press conference held by the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC). The stated goal of the Consortium is to produce a specification for a standard platform for embedded Linux. That was also the stated goal of the Consortium last April when it met at ESC West. (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 (more…)

Sebastopol, CA — (press release excerpt) — 802.11 technology goes by a variety of names, depending on who is talking about it. Some people call it wireless Ethernet to emphasize its shared lineage with traditional wired Ethernet. Wi-Fi, from wireless fidelity, is another popular name, referring to a certification program run by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA). (more…)

Cambridge, UK and San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt)– ARM and LynuxWorks today announced that LynuxWorks' BlueCat 4.0 Linux and VisualLynux Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will be packaged with the new ARM920T core-based Integrator Porting Platform. Offered as a complete, out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution, the development platform gives developers immediate access to a ported and… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce the addition of a third format for our continually updated news headline feed. The new format, an xml compatible rdf format file, is in addition to the two existing news feeds, which are in text and html formats. The new format was added in response to numerous requests from members of the LinuxDevices.com community. (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com “Device Profile” takes a look at hippo's Internet Phone, which uses Embedded Linux as its internal software platform. The hippo Internet Phone's embedded computer is based a 48MHz Motorola MPC850/823 PowerPC system-on-chip processor with 16MB of DRAM, running an Embedded Linux… (more…)

IBM's developerWorks Linux Zone has a new tutorial to prepare you for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 exam. In this first, no-charge, tutorial in a series of four, you will learn how to compile programs from sources, how to manage shared libraries, and how to use the Red Hat and Debian package management systems. (more…)

Matthew Broersma interviews Alan Cox about Linux's overall future as well as its battle for desktop market share, in this two part interview at ZDNet UK . . . (more…)

Socorro, NM –(press release excerpt) — FSMLabs Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the BSD version of its RTCore operating system, the technology that powers the hard real-time RTLinux/Pro system. RTCore/BSD provides a POSIX API for components needing precise timing and runs NetBSD as the fully preemptible 'application platform' thread. (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) is launching a new membership structure designed to propel the organization forward in its missions of evangelization, promotion and standardization. Members are receiving telephone calls from various ELC Board members who are helping explain the structure. (more…)

In his response to Kevin Dankwardt's Embedded Linux Journal article entitled Real Time and Linux, Part 3: Sub-Kernels and Benchmarks MontaVista's Kevin Morgan writes that RTLinux is “not appropriate for the placement of… (more…)

hippo inc. (New Haven, CT) has introduced a line of voice-over-IP (VoIP) based “Internet Phones”, which use Embedded Linux as their internal software platform. (more…)

Boston, MA — (press release excerpt) — The Real-Time Linux Workshop 2002 will be held on December 6-7, 2002 at the Computer Science Department at Boston University. The event is organized by the Real Time Linux Foundation and the Thinking Nerds. (more…)