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The two keynote presentations from the March 12, 2002 Embedded Linux Consortium meeting are now available online, as follows . . .
San Clemente, CA — (press release excerpt) — The RTC Group announces a Call for Papers for its Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) scheduled on June 11, 2002 in Dallas, Texas. ELEC is a focused event featuring conference presentations from high-level experts, as well as a showcase for new products and solutions from software and hardware… (more…)
Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt)– Century Embedded Technologies today announced an enhanced version of the Linux4.TV complete open-source set-top box solution, created by partner, National Semiconductor. Linux4.TV version 1.1.0 is available for download immediately and provides support for National's Geode SP1SC10 demonstration and development platform, along with extended functionality for… (more…)
San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — this week at the Embedded Systems Conference, General Software unveiled Firmbase, a software development kit (SDK) that offers a fault-tolerant, run-time infrastructure which allows high-availability firmware programs (called “firmware applications”) to run concurrently with industry-standard operating systems (including Linux). (more…)
A comment from a LinuxDevices.com reader . . .
At the Linux Forum 2002, Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer from IBM in Böblingen, Germany, gave an interview to Ole Tange, SSLUG (a Scandinavian Linux users group), on how IBM deals with software patents when . . . developing [with] Linux. (more…)
Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs announced today that its RTLinux/Pro hard-real-time operating system now supports the StrongArm processor. RTLinux/Pro and FSMLabs RTLinux/Pro Embedded Linux Development Kit for StrongARM will start shipping to customers by the end of March. (more…)
BSDToday reports . . .
“Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced the release of version 4.3 of BSD/OS, the company's commercial UNIX-based operating system. According to the bsdi-users mailing list, BSD/OS 4.3 has been available since December with many BSD/OS users receiving their 4.3 updates in January.” (more…)
Jim Hu of CNET reports that AOL is testing Netscape Communicator in a “move that could reignite a browser war” by making Netscape the default for some 34 million Web surfers . . . (more…)
San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. and NEC Electronics announced today certified benchmark scores for the Red Hat GNU C compiler for NEC's 400 megahertz (MHz) VR5500 MIPS-based microprocessor. (more…)
Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — Insignia Solutions announced today that Pioneer Research Center USA, Inc. (PRA) has licensed Insignia's Jeode virtual machine technologies, including source code, to integrate into a new interactive digital television platform that PRA is currently developing. (more…)
San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — the global IT services division of Wipro Technologies today announced the commercial availability of its Home Gateway Software suite. Wipro's Home Gateway Solution, which is currently based on Embedded Linux (using Lineo Embedix), is being demonstrated this week at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. (more…)
Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt) — Equator Technologies Inc. today announced Embedded Linux support for its Broadband Signal Processor (BSP) chip family. The high performance and low power consumption of the software-programmable BSP chip family is now paired with the accessibility and flexibility of Linux. (more…)
San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Driving open-source prevalence further into the mass commercial market, RidgeRun Inc. announced today that it has created dynamic shared library support for developers who are creating a broad variety of applications for embedded devices. (more…)
Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Tvia, Inc. today announced that it has released the CyberPro5202, the latest in its family of feature rich multimedia processors. CyberPro5202 merges multiple independent streams of audio, video, text, graphics and animation and delivers high quality output streams for display to multiple devices such as traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions, digital… (more…)
“Writing for Computerworld Singapore, Gerald Wee weighs in on the future of Linux PDAs . . .” (more…)