In response to worries about the possibility of patent-infringement lawsuits arising from the granting of a patent covering certain techniques used in RTLinux, the open source license covering portions of RTAI (a competing real-time extension to Linux) has recently been changed from LGPL to GPL. (more…)

Eighteen months ago, Antec Corporation began to investigate incorporating SNMP within their cable television distribution equipment. They wanted to move away from proprietary and home-grown protocols and offer products capable of TCP communication with network management software. With volume in the 1000's, they required a low-cost, reliable, robust, and open solution. I suggested embedded Linux. … (more…)

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A “second generation” iPAQ-based wearable computer running Linux has been developed as part of the ongoing non-commercial research efforts of the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) at Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. (more…)

PalmPalm Technology Inc. reports that they have recently signed a mutual agreement with Texas Instruments (TI) to provide a mobile Linux solution for TI's OMAP platform, which supports 2.5G or 3G based communications on next generation PDAs. PalmPalm's OMAP support will be based on the company's Tynux embedded… (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Metrowerks is releasing the newest version of its toolset for creating applications for Java technology-enabled devices such as smartphones, PDAs, and set-top boxes. CodeWarrior Wireless Studio, Professional Edition, Version 7.0 allows Java application developers to create, compile, and debug Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), and… (more…)

Reports are trickling in from the Sharp Zaurus community that orders of the consumer model, the Zaurus SL-5500, have begun shipping from Amazon.com, who had been accepting preorders. Amazon has also added a collection of Zaurus-compatible accessories, including a CompactFlash digital camera. (more…)

Sun has informed downloaders of StarOffice 6.0 beta software that their program will expire March 31, 2002 if they don't download and install a free patch. It is currently unclear how long the patch will extend the use of the StarOffice 6.0 beta, but the extension will presumably be set to expire shortly after the fully released version of StarOffice 6.0 hits the market. (more…)

Orlando, FL and Atlanta, GA — (press release excerpt) — Glenayre Technologies, Inc. today announced it is one of the first companies to offer carrier-grade messaging solutions on the Linux operating system. Red Hat will provide consulting, engineering, development, and customer services and support to help Glenayre implement Versera Solutions on the Red Hat Linux operating system. (more…)

Linuxgram's Maureen O'Gara offers additional insight into this week's Lineo layoff in this article . . .

“. . . Lineo has cut staff. This time roughly 45%, reducing it to 75 people. The terminations were made Monday.” (more…)

Version 0.9.9 of uClibc has been announced by Erik Andersen . . .

CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.10. This release adds pthreads support (including pthreads support for mmu-less systems!). Additionally, thanks to Manuel Novoa III, we now have a completely new stdio library, which is small, standards compliant, supports pthreads,… (more…)

In this whitepaper on Linux Scheduler Latency, Clark Williams of Red Hat Inc. compares the performance of two popular ways to improve kernel Linux preemption latency — the preemption patch pioneered by MontaVista and the low-latency patch pioneered by Ingo Molnar — and discovers that the best approach might be a combination of both. Williams writes . . . (more…)

With various Linux-related news originating from Sun over the past few weeks, the company has posted a comprehensive overview of their open source and Linux strategy . . . (more…)

Citing “the impact of the economic downturn that has prevailed since March”, Lineo reduced its headcount again this week and continued the process begun last Fall of narrowing its focus to three key target markets. (more…)

Jacqueline Emigh provides an update and overview regarding the Eclipse project, and previews the enhanced Eclipse 2.0 slated for release in May in this story at LinuxPlanet. Emigh writes . . . (more…)

Writing at ZDNet UK, Matt Loney reports on the anticpated April launch of the Linux-powered Sharp Zaurus, citing the retail price as a 'sticking point'. Loney writes . . . (more…)