Howard Wen reveals details about Linux for PlayStation 2, Release 1.0 in an article at O'Reilly Network. Wen reports . . . (more…)

In this article, FreeDOS Project founder Jim Hall shares his thoughts on the past, present, and future of the FreeDOS Project — a complete, free, MS-DOS compatible operating system. Hall writes . . . (more…)

Jonathan Krim of the Washington Post reports the latest in the Microsoft anti-trust trial, including testimony from Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann. Krim writes . . . (more…)

Trolltech today announced the general availablility of an SDK for developing applications using Qtopia, a Linux-based application environment for mobile embedded devices. Qtopia provides the application platform for Sharp's recently introduced (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release excerpt) — the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) has formed an international working group (WG) to pursue an API-centric approach to standardizing a computing platform for using Linux in embedded applications. The group consists of technologists from companies who are members of the ELC. (more…)

Sharp today launched myZaurus.com, a new website aimed at users and developers of Sharp's recently released Linux-powered Zaurus SL-5500 “personal mobile tool”. (more…)

Foreword: In this article, FreeDOS Project founder Jim Hall shares his thoughts on the past, present, and future of the FreeDOS Project — a complete, free, MS-DOS compatible operating system. . From the FreeDOS.org website . . .

Graeme Wearden of ZDNet UK reports of a Linux-powered humanoid robot from Japan that could be deployed successfully in the workplace . . . (more…)

[Updated March 23, 2002] Here is an announcement from JavaOne regarding special attention being given to the Zaurus Linux/Java PDA, and a special price being offered for the developer model . . . (more…)

The new Red Hat Linux beta, SKIPJACK, is available for download. SKIPJACK includes the very latest technology, including:

• the 2.4.18 kernel
• XFree86 4.2.0
• KDE 3.0 pre
• GNOME 1.4, including Evolution
• Mozilla 0.9.9

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Tim Sullivan reports on the Embedded Linux Consortium's Second Annual Meeting held at the Embedded Systems Conference last week. Writing for embedded.com, Sullivan offers a complete rundown of meeting highlights . . . (more…)

Ralf Ackermann brings us up to date on wearable computing devices, developed as part of the non-commercial research efforts of the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. Ackerman examines the center's latest design, and provides many references and resources in this article . . . (more…)

ZaurusZone.com has published an overview by Chris Larson of the OpenZaurus Project, which was created to provide an alternative ROM image for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. Larson writes . . . (more…)

To reduce the risk of lawsuits due to a patent covering certain techniques used in RTLinux, the competing Real Time Application Interface (RTAI) project has changed the license associated with portions of RTAI from LGPL to GPL. The change in license was quietly phased in as part of the RTAI-24.1.8 release. (more…)

Dr. Craig Hollabaugh discusses his newly released technical book on Embedded Linux, published by Addison Wesley. Hollabaugh writes . . .
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