Las Vegas, NV; COMDEX — (press release excerpt) — National Semiconductor Corporation is demonstrating the Geode Mobile Gateway, a wireless Internet access point and personal server in a PDA-size portable footprint, at COMDEX 2001. The small powerful “conceptual device” demonstrates the convergence of broadband mobile communications with personal wireless networks, and allows handheld devices to… (more…)

Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic announced a strategic partnership with New Level Telecom (NL Telecom) for the distribution and support of the company's real-time embedded Linux solutions in Korea. The two companies will begin hosting embedded Linux training seminars in Seoul beginning early next year. (more…)

This week's KernelTrap interview is with Neal Walfield, a member of the open source GNU/Hurd project development team. (more…)

Foreword: This article is the seventh in a LinuxDevices.com series on Exploring Linux PDA Alternatives by Jerry Epplin that explores the history, status, alternative architectures, and future developments of Linux on PDAs and handheld devices. (more…)

Korean manufacturers HNT Co., Ltd. and Hangil Telecom have announced that they are jointly developing a new Linux-based PDA which will be released in the first quarter of 2002. (more…)

If you've used UNIX or Linux for some period of time, you've probably written a few Perl programs to automate simple tasks. Each of these programs does something basic and simple that might otherwise take you 10 or 20 minutes to do by hand. This article at IBM's developerWorks website shows you how to convert just such a Perl program into a far more robust programming project, one that will be generic… (more…)

Why is IBM supporting Linux? IBM asks just that question, and here's their answer:

“Because we admire it, we believe in it, we need it and it's good for customers. And, well…it's a lot of fun. We've invested a billion dollars in Linux, we've made every eServer Linux-enabled, and now we've made a little investment in some Linux fun. (more…)

Linux Journal has announced its annual “Editors' Choice” awards, and five of the winners are from the Embedded Linux space. These are (as described in Linux Journal) . . .

• Server Appliance: Filanet InterJak 200 802.11b — Filanet makes a series of inexpensive, fanless embedded Linux network devices, based around a custom ASIC with an ARM CPU core and hardware 3DES, that will solve a lot… (more…)

Berkeley, CA — (press release excerpt) — Researchers and scientists at Quantum Magnetics say the flexibility of the Linux operating system provided a greater benefit than Windows during the development and testing of a new concealed weapons tracking system. (more…)

The following information about a new Linux-based PDA has been provided by Master Integrated Appliances Co., Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan), the developer of the device . . . (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. today announced the appointment of Matt Harris as Lineo CEO. Harris will assume this position formerly held by Lineo founder Bryan Sparks. Harris formerly held the position of Lineo COO and was directly responsible for all of Lineo's internal operations. (more…)

Palo Alto, CA; Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Hewlett-Packard Company and Red Hat, Inc. today announced that Red Hat Linux software will be donated to selected universities as part of HP and Intel Corporation's Itanium-based Systems Grants program. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — VA Linux Systems, Inc. today announced SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.0 — the latest version of its collaborative software development (CSD) platform. SourceForge 3.0 introduces key features such as enterprise search, enhanced monitoring and reporting capabilities, as well as improved performance through database integration with Oracle. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Ashley Laurent, a provider of broadband networking and security software, today announced the availability of its BroadWay Integrated Service Software (ISS) on Red Hat and embedded Linux. (more…)

North Chelmsford, MA — (press release excerpt) — SavaJe Technologies announced the release of version 1.0 of its SavaJe XE operating system. SavaJe XE is the first operating system for embedded and handheld devices to support a full desktop Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) environment. (more…)