This week KernelTrap interviews John Levon, the author of OProfile and a contributer to KernelNewbies. He offers much insight into both of these projects, as well as reflecting on Linux in general. OProfile is a statistical x86 profiling system for the 2.4 Linux kernel, useful in understanding what percentage of the CPU is being utilized by different processes, including those in kernel space and those in… (more…)

[updated 7:30am PST] Sharp Electronics, Lineo, Insignia Solutions, Trolltech, and Opera jointly… (more…)

By Sandeep Junnarkar, Staff Writer, CNET News.com . . .

IBM announced on Monday that it will donate $40 million of its software tools to the public domain in a move to create an open-source organization aimed at developers. (more…)

San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Varco International announced today that it will standardize on MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux embedded operating environment for its full line of oil rig floor equipment controllers. (more…)

Matt Sherer examines some of the reasons why Linux is making large inroads into the real-time and embedded systems market, in this two-part series at InformIT.com. [Note: free registration required for access.] Sherer writes . . . (more…)

The previous article in this series at IBM's developerWorks website talked about pipes, a form of interprocess communication, on Windows and Linux. Now it looks at interprocess synchronization primitives as a way to control two processes' access to the same resource. As always, the goal of this column is to suggest ways to optimize your programming practices and demonstrate the performance of those… (more…)

This tutorial at IBM's developerWorks website steps you through the process of getting XFree86 4.x, the standard free X server for Linux, up and running on your system. It also covers X usage fundamentals, including running X applications remotely, securing X, and configuring X applications using the X resource database. (more…)

Subsequent to a reader comment that an article published in Sweden reports that Ericsson has discontinued their Linux-based Cordless Web Screen project, LinuxDevices.com contacted Ericsson to check on the… (more…)

By Michael Caton, of ZDNet News . . .

The open-source community, through Linux software development company Ximian, has embarked on a development effort to bring Microsoft's .Net platform to Linux. (more…)

By Ian Fried of CNET News.com . . .

Internet service provider Prodigy Communications plans to start selling a $199 Web-surfing appliance from the New Internet Computer Co., according to a source familiar with the deal. (more…)

M-Systems announced today that they have enhanced their pen-shaped DiskOnKey USB flash storage device to make it bootable. The DiskOnKey, an ergonomically designed pocketable, pen-sized device device roughly the size of a pen, is intended to be used as a floppy disk replacement which offers greater convenience and data reliability. (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — Finite State Machine Labs, Inc (FSMLabs) today announced an alliance with Samsung affiliate Turbolinux Systems, Inc., whereby Turbolinux Systems will market and offer technical support for FSMLabs' RTLinux Pro real-time operating system in Korea and the Asia/Pacific region. (more…)

Another 4-day hands-on embedded Linux training workshop has been announced by TrainingCity. This one takes place Nov 26-29, 2001, on the campus of the University of California in San Diego, CA. The $1495 tuition includes 4 days of intense “Hands On” labs, assignments, and projects, as well as course manuals & CDs containing software tools from a growing list of partners and others. (more…)

Features

• Power Trio: Three Diverse Embedded Linux SBCs, by Michael Baxter — Boards for the Linux market offer integrated display, I/O and storage features. (more…)

The first part (in the September/October 2001 issue of Embedded Linux Journal) talked about the environment and the scope of device drivers. Now here's a step-by-step plan for writing a new driver. (more…)