San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Force Computers today announced its preconfigured Centellis CO 25000-9U system with redundant Pentium III processor based single board computers (SBCs), Linux operating system (OS), redundant Layer 2 Ethernet switches, complete SNMP remote management support for all SBCs/switches and preinstalled GoAhead High Availability (HA) middleware. (more…)

HP unveiled a bold new initiative in the web server market today, with the announcement of a CompactPCI and Linux based blade server product line (see press release excerpt, below). (more…)

San Diego, CA. — (press release excerpt) — Green Hills Software, Inc. today announced that its MULTI 2000 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is now available for use with the RTLinux real-time operating system from FSMLabs, Inc. The MULTI 2000 IDE greatly simplifies the development of sophisticated applications for embedded target systems running RTLinux. (more…)

According to a posting at KDE.org . . .

“KDevelop's programmer extraordinaire Ralf Nolden has added cross-compilation support to KDevelop. As his initial motivation was to support development for the Zaurus, KDevelop can now be used for developing applications for ARM processors (both the Zaurus and Compaq's iPaq are based on the StrongARM). (more…)

Ottawa, Canada — (press release excerpt) — Espial today announced that SavaJe Technologies has licensed the Espial Escape browser for inclusion with its new SavaJe XE operating system. (more…)

By Ian Fried; special to ZDNet News . . .

San Jose, CA — Seeking to prove it isn't the dinosaur of the handheld market, Sharp Electronics on Monday relaunched the Zaurus in the United States. (more…)

SANTA ANA, Calif., – December 4, 2001 – REDSonic, Inc. today announced a partnership with single-board computer maker JUMPtec Adastra. REDSonic will provide support for JUMPtec Adastra's VNS-786L, MOPSIcd6, and ETX-P3E boards with REDSonic's RED-Builder 2.0 PE development tool. Both companies will participate in joint marketing efforts to promote the solutions. (more…)

Mercer Is., WA — (press release excerpt) — twenty companies today jointly announced the Service Availability Forum, an industry-wide coalition to fortify services and applications running on the currently overburdened global communications network. (more…)

Chicago, IL — (press release excerpt) — Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, and TogetherSoft today announced the formation of Eclipse.org, an open consortium of providers of development tools that manages the Eclipse Platform, which is being made available in open source… (more…)

Cambridge, MA — (press release excerpt) — Bitstream Inc. announced today the product release of btX, a premier font server for Linux. btX gives Linux the same font presentation as that found on the Macintosh and on Windows. With btX, developers can render hinted, anti-aliased, and kerned characters, producing great looking text on screen. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech today launched a worldwide developer contest to help generate applications for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D, the first PDA from a major power in consumer electronics to ship with embedded Linux. (more…)

Brampton, Ontario — (press release excerpt) — Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced the immediate worldwide availability of its full Level 2 certification exams. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks and Apogee Software today announced that Apogee's Aphelion Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will be offered to LynuxWorks' customers deploying Java applications on the BlueCat Linux or LynxOS RTOS operating systems. (more…)

Sharp today issued an announcement of the full production version of the Linux/Java based Zaurus PDA, in conjunction with an all day press and developer symposium held in San Jose, CA. The Zaurus SL-5500 will be available in early 2002. Here is an excerpt from the announcement . . . (more…)

In this “device profile”, LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum introduces the ZapStation, a Linux-powered audio/video jukebox for serious consumer audiophiles. Beneath that stereo receiver look-and-feel lurks an 800MHz Intel Celeron equipped with 128MB RAM and a 30GB hard drive, running Linux kernel 2.4. (more…)