This handy little online “Flash” presentation from K Computing provides an extremely well presented, easy-to-follow, step-by-step mini-tutorial on BusyBox — the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux. The online mini-presentation includes information about what BusyBox is, where to get it, and how to configure and compile it. (more…)

[Updated: 10:45 PDT] Lineo provided the following statement in response to inquiries from LinuxDevices.com regarding rumors about a recent layoff . . .

On Friday, July 13, 2001, Lineo conducted a layoff that affected 13 percent of our worldwide staff, or 42 people. (more…)

The Embedded Systems Conference Boston asked that the following announcement be passed along to the LinuxDevices.com community . . . (more…)

This handy little online “Flash” presentation from K Computing provides an extremely well presented, easy-to-follow, step-by-step mini-tutorial on BusyBox– the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux. (more…)

[Updated, 16:20 PDT] Empower Technologies Inc., a 30-person company based in Redmond, WA, today announced what they are calling “the world's first major operating system upgrade for Palm IIIx and IIIxe handhelds”. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — NetClue Corporation today announced the release of Clue Browser 4.0, an embedded Java Browser for Java applications and smart mobile devices. Clue 4.0's new features include DOM 2, CSS 2, and full JavaScript 1.4 support. (more…)

By Wylie Wong; special to ZDNet News . . .

Software maker Borland will soon rent out Web-based tools for software developers to write and build their programs. (more…)

Toronto, Canada; Augsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — MGI and TUXIA today announced a non-exclusive partnership to develop and market a complete multimedia and TV software infrastructure for Linux-based entertainment devices. (more…)

Haiva, Israel — (press release excerpt) — CompuLab announced the 586CORE, a tiny module implementing a complete Embedded PC within just 3.1 x 2.4 inches (78 x 60 mm) of space. The functional content of the module is equivalent to a well-equipped desktop computer, including a Pentium-class CPU, SDRAM, Flash Disk, and practically all the standard peripheral interfaces. (more…)

RidgeRun, Inc. today announced immediate availability of a Board Support Package (BSP) for the Texas Instruments TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor. The new product offering allows embedded system developers to build an embedded product quickly, start writing applications before hardware is available, access royalty-free Open Source code to jump start development and use the power of DSPs without… (more…)

Although this is not a story about Embedded Linux, it certainly deals with the underpinnings of the computing revolution on which the growing success of Linux is based: Moore's Law, the tendency of silicon device technology to double in density every 18 months. (more…)

Milpitas, CA; Lindon, UT — (press release excerpt) — Panasonic and Lineo Inc. today announced the availability of a Lineo Embedix embedded Linux operating system image for Panasonic's OEM DVD-RAM drive. By using an Embedix image created with the Lineo Embedix Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.0, the Panasonic 4.7/9.4GB rewritable DVD drive becomes a removable mass storage solution for any embedded device… (more…)

In this guest editorial, Jason Briggs paints a picture of a future in which we are surrounded by myriad smart devices, each running the combo of an embedded Linux OS along with a Java application programming environment. Briggs writes . . . (more…)

Augsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA today announced the release of Version 3.2 of its TSE (TUXIA Synthesis Environment) development toolkit for developing Web terminals and interactive set-top boxes based on the company's embedded Linux software. TSE 3.2 offers a number of new innovations optimized for Web terminals and interactive settop boxes, for thin clients, and for developers. (more…)

In this guest editorial at ZDNet, Jon “maddog” Hall of Linux International gives some advice to the Court with regard to a fair and just punishment for Microsoft. As is his habit, Hall expresses his opinions bluntly . . . and entertainingly. Hall writes . . . (more…)