With the 2.4 release of Linux come many new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. These filesystems sound cool, but what exactly can they do, what are they good at, and exactly how do you go about safely using them in a production Linux environment? Daniel Robbins answers these questions by showing you how to set up these new advanced filesystems under Linux 2.4. (more…)

An announcement from theKompany.com . . .

TheKompany.com has announced tkcCalendar, an enhanced replacement to the calendar included in the Zaurus. When you install it, the default calendar will be moved out of the way (it is moved back when/if you uninstall). This means that your original data is preserved and there is no interruption with synchronization. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA and Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech today announced the debut of ActiveQt, a new framework designed to help Qt developers speed and simplify the use of ActiveX controls in Qt applications, and to more easily create their own ActiveX servers. Qt, Trolltech's popular C++, multi-platform application framework, lets developers create single-source applications that run… (more…)

Austin, TX –(press release excerpt) — Metrowerks is shipping a new set of tools that enables application and content development for Tao Group's 'intent', a high performance, portable media platform for consumer devices. (more…)

Dallas, TX –(press release excerpt) — Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced today that wireless software developers and device manufacturers will soon be able to create and showcase innovative applications for 2.5G and 3G mobile phones, PDAs, and mobile Internet devices using a versatile new development kit for TI's OMAP processing platform. (more…)

Mountain View, CA — (press release excerpt) — Solid Information Technology Corp. announced today the availability of the third-generation of the Solid FlowEngine high-availability, fault-tolerant distributed data management solution. Solid FlowEngine supports the modern distributed enterprise and enables networking manufacturers to provide leading-edge products that power next-generation smart networks. (more…)

An announcement to the Linux developer community from IBM . . .

The latest IBM middleware for Linux (DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and Lotus Domino) is being provided, at no cost, on a 2 CD set, along with Web… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Marking the industry's first Linux distribution of a key enabling grid technology from a major systems vendor, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Grid Engine 5.3 software is now being distributed by SuSE Linux in the new release of SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Edition. (more…)

Karim Yaghmour updates us on the Linux Trace Toolkit in this email excerpt …

A new patch, 2.5.7, is available for the Linux Trace Toolkit. The toolkits now supports five CPU architectures: i386, PPC, S/390, SuperH, and MIPS. (more…)

San Jose, CA — press release excerpt) — Altera Corp. today announced that its Quartus II version 2.0 design software now supports Red Hat's Linux version 7.1 operating system. Available immediately, this release is the industry's first native Linux tool that allows programmable logic device (PLD) designers to take advantage of more efficient distributed computing platforms. (more…)

In this informative article about Embedded Linux at Dr. Dobb's Journal, Todd Fischer asks 'Who needs excess baggage?' Fischer, director of engineering and telephony for RidgeRun, examines key techniques for development using embedded Linux . . . (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced embedded Linux support for Motorola's MVME2433-3 and MVME5100-0131 single board computers (SBC) built on the PowerPC 750 processor. Embedded systems developers looking for a Linux solution for these PowerPC 750-based VME boards will be able to download a complete, certified solution beginning April 26. (more…)

Jon “maddog” Hall introduces us to the Linux Mark Institute in this overview of trademarks as they relate to 'Linux'. The Linux Mark Institute was created to handle licensing of the term 'Linux' to companies and individuals wanting to incorporate it into their own trademarks. (more…)

Have you noticed something new at LinuxDevices.com? With more than 1,200 articles, links, and product listings, we felt that a tree-structured Directory that lets you browse these stories by category would be a worthwhile tool to have, along with the existing Site Search… (more…)

Porting Windows applications to Linux doesn't have to involve a retraining nightmare. Markus Neifer shows how to port Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) using wxWindows, giving a user's guide to this open source GUI toolkit and providing a complete, step-by-step porting example. (more…)