Foreword: This article is the first in LinuxDevices.com's new series of reviews, by software developer Jerry Epplin, of Embedded Linux toolkits. In order to gain insight into the use of each toolkit from the developer's perspective, Epplin builds Embedded Linux OS images for three different x86-based… (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. today announced a restructuring that includes a reduction in force and the expected spin out of peripheral technology projects. This restructuring allows Lineo to focus on its core competency of developing advanced embedded operating systems and development tools that help developers and OEMs integrate open standards with proprietary… (more…)

Tokyo, Japan — National Semiconductor today announced that Japan Computer Corporation (JCC) has developed a new Internet appliance based on National's Geode “set-top box on a… (more…)

Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software today announced that future versions of its browser will support the new and improved Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0 standard in future releases. With the integration of WAP 2.0, Opera can offer mobile Internet Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's) an all-in-one solution for their devices, as well as providing desktop users with unique… (more…)

Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt) — Viosoft today announced availability of Arriba! Embedded Linux Edition, a cross-platform development environment for Linux-based application development using Intel's IXP1200 Network Processor family. The product provides a complete Windows-hosted compiler tool chain for the IXP1200 Network Processor. (more…)

The TuxScreen is a discontinued StrongARM-based color touchscreen webphone product, once manufactured by Philips as the IS2630 WebPhone. It was created as a joint development of Philips and Lucent and sold for $650 retail. Only a few were sold, the division lost $30 million, and the product was subsequently scrapped. (more…)

Can Linux be a real-time operating system?

Real-time is a term that characterizes a particular application. Hard real-time means an application fails catastrophically if deadline requirements are not met. Soft real-time means an application suffers degradation in quality, but not catastrophic failure, if deadline requirements are not met. (more…)

Red Hat has selected FSMLabs' RTLinux as its standard approach to hard real-time Linux application requirements, according to a joint press release issued today. (more…)

This guest editorial by MontaVista Software's VP of Engineering, Kevin Morgan, makes the case for obtaining hard real-time performance from Linux through a kernel preemptibility enhancement, rather than by using the approach of adding a second kernel such as RTLinux or RTAI. Morgan writes . . . (more…)

EE Times editor Bernard Cole reports on some of the real-time operating system (RTOS) trends that are showing up at this week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston, MA, and reports on a recent RTOS study by CMP Media's Electronics Market Forecasters Group. Cole writes . . . (more…)

In the first in a monthly series at Dr. Dobb's Embedded Systems, Tom Genereaux sees lots of reasons (not all of them technical) to use Linux as an embedded OS. Genereaux writes . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — OEone Corporation previewed Penzilla at Linux World Expo last week. A new, comprehensive Operating Environment platform, Penzilla can power a host of Internet devices ranging from webpads, set-top boxes, screen phones, and all-in-ones. (more…)

Boston, MA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat today unveiled the Red Hat Embedded Linux Developer Suite, a packaged offering that combines new versions of its embedded Linux platform, development tools, runtime technologies, and support services into a single offering designed to meet the needs of developers looking for a standardized open source platform for faster… (more…)

Waltham, MA — (press release excerpt) — Embedded Linux vendor Lineo Inc. and system-on-chip maker NetSilicon Inc. today announced a partnership to support Lineo's uClinux operating system on NetSilicon's NET+ARM networked system-on-chip processors. (more…)

Factoid of the day: there were 18,000 attendees at the recent LinuxWorld Expo & Conference which took place August 26-30, 2001 in San Francisco, CA. According to IDG World Expo PR director Brooke Selby, the attendance for the most recent three LinuxWorld shows has been . . .

• San Jose, CA — August, 2000 — 20,000
• New York, NY — February, 2001 — 25,000
• San Francisco, CA –… (more…)