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Microsoft throws down XP gauntlet at the feet of Embedded Linux

December 19, 2001

Microsoft has published an online document entitled “Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Not Embedded Linux?”, in which embedded XP is compared to Embedded Linux in eight ways. Quoting from the introduction . . .

Selecting an operating system (OS) platform is one of the first decisions an embedded developer must make for any given device design. (more…)

Lineo rebuttal to Microsoft attack on Embedded Linux — Part II

December 19, 2001

Lineo has issued a further rebuttal to a paper posted by Microsoft on its website, in which Microsoft asserts that Windows XP Embedded is superior to Embedded Linux. Earlier this week, Lineo issued an initial response countering many of the specific statements made by Microsoft in its anti Embedded Linux paper, as did LynuxWorks. (more…)

Article: Lineo rebuttal to Microsoft attack on Embedded Linux — Part II

December 19, 2001

Lineo has issued a further rebuttal to a paper posted by Microsoft on its website, in which Microsoft asserts that Windows XP Embedded is superior to Embedded Linux. Earlier this week, Lineo issued an… (more…)

Article: Microsoft throws down XP gauntlet at the feet of Embedded Linux

December 19, 2001

[Updated Dec. 19, 2001] Microsoft has published an online document entitled Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Not Embedded Linux?, in which embedded XP is compared to Embedded Linux in eight ways. (more…)

Lineo responds to Microsoft attack on Embedded Linux

December 18, 2001

At the end of November Microsoft posted a document on its Web site comparing the Windows XP Embedded and embedded Linux operating systems, with the emphasis on the technical and business inferiority of Linux. Embedded Linux distributors argue that the document not only distorts the value of Linux, but contains inaccuracies. (more…)

Lineo: MS ‘lied’ about embedded Linux [ZDNet]

December 18, 2001

By Matthew Broersma, of ZDNet (UK) . . .

Lineo, the embedded Linux developer, has delivered a scathing attack on Microsoft's recently released white paper comparing Windows XP Embedded and embedded Linux. Lineo points out what it says are numerous inaccuracies and distortions designed to improve the image of Windows. (more…)

LynuxWorks responds to Microsoft attack on Embedded Linux

December 18, 2001

Microsoft recently posted a document on its website which compares Windows XP Embedded to Embedded Linux, in an attempt to portray Embedded Linux as inferior from both technical and business perspectives. Embedded Linux vendors have countered that Microsoft's document contains numerous inaccuracies and is based on distorted characterizations of the Embedded Linux operating system as well as of the vendors… (more…)

Linux-based Digital Video Recorder project launched

December 18, 2001

A new project for Digital Video Recorder (DVR) functions on Linux systems equipped with video capture cards has been launched today on Sourceforge. Here is a brief summary of the project (from the Sourceforge project page) . . . (more…)

Lineo announces $3 million funding, hardware spin-offs, management changes

December 17, 2001

Lineo Inc. today announced the results of recent changes, including the removal of hardware businesses and changes to the executive team, along with another round of investment. The plan for a major corporate restructuring and refocusing had been announced two months ago, and a change in CEOs was (more…)

Article: Lineo responds to Microsoft attack on Embedded Linux

December 17, 2001

At the end of November Microsoft posted a document on its Web site comparing the Windows XP Embedded and embedded Linux operating systems, with the emphasis on the technical and business inferiority of Linux. (more…)

Article: LynuxWorks responds to Microsoft attack on Embedded Linux

December 17, 2001

Microsoft recently posted a document on its website which compares Windows XP Embedded to Embedded Linux, in an attempt to portray Embedded Linux as inferior from both technical and business perspectives. (more…)

Sharp Linux/Java PDA comes to Davis, Calif.

December 14, 2001

The Linux Users' Group of Davis, CA has announced that Bill Kendrick, open source software developer and creator of a number of games and applications for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA, will be discussing Sharp's new “Zaurus” SL-5000 Linux/Java-based PDA at the Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD), which meets in Davis, California (near Sacramento,… (more…)

New development version of wxWindows has been released

December 14, 2001

Robert Roebling, of the wxWindows project, writes . . .

I would like to announce that a new development version of the wxWindows library has been released. wxWindows is an OpenSource cross-platform C++ GUI library with very popular bindings for Python, Perl and recently Basic and Lua. (more…)

Real-time and Embedded Forum announces Jan. 23-25 agenda

December 14, 2001

The Open Group has issued the agenda for the January Real-time and Embedded Systems forum meeting . . . (more…)

The thinking behind the Wonka Public License

December 14, 2001

Recently ACUNIA released Wonka, their implementation of the Java language, under a BSD-style license. In this guest column at LinuxDevices.com, ACUNIA Chief Technology Officer Steven Buytaert and VM Architect Chris Gray explain the reasons behind the decision. (more…)