Fort Lauderdale, FL — (press release excerpt) — Metro Link today announced the release of Micro-X for the Sony PlayStation 2. With the PlayStation 2 becoming a new consumer standard for multimedia entertainment, Metro Link has jumped ahead of the market by providing its small footprint X server for the PlayStation 2. (more…)

Based on the high level of interest in small systems and single-board computers (SBCs) for use as platforms in Linux-based projects & products, LinuxDevices.com has created a new discussion forum area devoted to these two closely related topics. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Journal has announced that the first round of their “NIC contest” is over, and NIC systems are being sent to the twenty lucky finalists. This second annual design contest is based on projects using the New Internet Computer… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum gives his impressions of the world's first book on the subject of using Linux in embedded systems and smart devices: John Lombardo's Embedded Linux, published by New Riders press (ISBN: 073570998X). Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

In response to recent attacks on Open Source Software from proprietary software vendors, Lineo has announced a new tool which is intended to assist developers in identifying the licenses within system software components. The tool is said to identify up to 40 different software licenses including GPL, LGPL, BSD, Artistic, and many others. (more…)

By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK . . .

Lineo, maker of the Linux-based embedded operating system Embedix, said this week that it had licensed patented technology from FSMLabs, the creator of RTLinux. (more…)

Earlier this week, Lineo announced that they have licensed a real-time technology patent from RTLinux creator Victor Yodaiken to allow Lineo “to provide OEM customers with high performance, real-time embedded solutions integrating FSM's patented techniques of adding real-time support with the Lineo Embedix embedded… (more…)

Updated Feb. 22, 2002 Waltham, MA — (press release excerpt) — Wireless Networks Inc. today announced that NetSilicon's NET+Works device networking platform is providing the connectivity for Wireless Networks' (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Point-of-sale (POS) system manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf Inc. today announced plans to offer Linux as a platform for migrating DOS-based POS systems to full-function, next-generation POS solutions. The migration offering marks another step in Wincor Nixdorf's ongoing commitment to assist retailers in building modern POS solutions based on the Red Hat Linux platform. (more…)

[Updated Aug. 7, 2001; 6:15 pm PDT] MP3.com has selected Embedded Linux vendor Lineo Inc. to supply its next-generation Business Music Media Server (BMMS) after evaluating the solutions of 12 different supplier candidates. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Khronos Group, a consortium of digital media and graphics industry leaders, today announced that the OpenML 1.0 specification has been unanimously ratified and is now publicly available. OpenML, a software environment that is complementary to the peer OpenGL API,… (more…)

McAfee.com today announced that they have been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a method of delivering software as a Web service. United States Patent 6,266,774 for the “Method and system for securing, managing or optimizing a personal computer” was issued on July 24, 2001. (more…)

News Flash: Embedded Linux vendor Lineo Inc. became the first software company to publicly announce the licensing of Victor Yodaiken's patented process for running a general purpose operating system (such as Linux) as a task under a real-time kernel (such as (more…)

In response to recent rumors of a substantial layoff at Embedded Linux vendor LynuxWorks, LinuxDevices.com contacted the company for comment. LynuxWorks Chairman Inder Singh acknowledged a recent layoff at his company, putting its size at “approximately 15 percent of the company's work force.” (more…)

This announcement was submitted on behalf of the open source CanFestival project, which offers CAN bus support for Linux based real-time and embedded systems . . . (more…)