Foreword: Matthew Harris' last case as a practicing lawyer was as lead technical litigator in the Caldera antitrust case against Microsoft which ended up with Microsoft making a large payment to Caldera. (more…)

TinyWidgets is a 'C' based widget set designed to work with the Nano-X API. Nano-X is a part of the Microwindows project. TinyWidgets is shipped with a Glade-like GUI designer for rapidly developing applications. (more…)

Santa Clara, California — (press release excerpt) — Open Country, a provider of commerce, distribution and management solutions for Open Source applications, today announced Open Innovation, a conference to be held at the Santa Clara Marriott on July 31 and August 1. (more…)

Let your voice be heard! No prizes, just the satisfaction of making your opinion known by participating in the seventh annual Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards. Let us know your preferred database, programming beverage (and language), text editor, architecture and more. (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet News . . .

Even as Microsoft touts the open availability of the underpinnings of its .Net initiative, open-source advocates are working to make sure .Net isn't a Microsoft-only technology (more…)

MontaVista has apparently challenged Lineo's claim to support nearly 100 different embedded processors, according to an article at Linuxgram.com. Linuxgram writes . . . (more…)

By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet (UK) . . .

IBM has called Microsoft's recent attacks on the open source business model “arrogance”, blasting them as futile and counterproductive. (more…)

Hillsboro, OR — (press release excerpt) — RadiSys Corporation and Microware Systems Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which RadiSys, through a wholly owned subsidiary, will acquire Microware for $0.68 per share in an all-cash tender offer valued at approximately $13.1 million. (more…)

Borehamwood, UK — (press release excerpt) — SuSE Linux released a “Firewall on a CD”, a format that is more secure and easier to install and maintain. The “SuSE Linux Firewall on CD”, due to be presented at LinuxTage Expo in Stuttgart this week, was designed as an application level gateway and combines the high security standards of a hardware solution with the flexibility of a software firewall. (more…)

The Free Standards Group released version 1.0 of the Linux Standard Base specification last week. The goal of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) is to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant Linux system. (more…)

Pierre Coupard, the genius behind the amazing Linux/RTAI based software radio, now brings us this interesting article that explains how you can build an environmentally friendly uClinux system that is powered by a hand crank. Look ma, no batteries! (more…)

The results of the election of members of the board of directors of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) are in. The ELC's independent ballot counting organization, Webster/Chamberlain/Bean, has determined that runoff elections are not needed; the winners are . . . (more…)

This is the slide presentation given by LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum at the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) held on June 27, 2001 in San Jose, CA. Topics discussed include . . .

1. Why use Linux in embedded applications?
2. Embedded Linux market data
3. Examples of “cool” Embedded Linux apps
4. Embedded Linux “SWOT” analysis *
5. The future of Embedded Linux

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This is the slide presentation given by LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum at the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) held on June 27, 2001 in San Jose, CA. Topics discussed include . . .

• Why use Linux in embedded applications?
• Embedded Linux market data
• Examples of “cool” Embedded Linux apps
• Embedded Linux “SWOT” analysis *
• The future of Embedded Linux

… (more…)

Pierre Coupard, the genius behind the amazing Linux/RTAI based software radio, now brings us this interesting article that explains how you can build an environmentally friendly uClinux system that is powered by a hand-operated crank. Look ma, no batteries! (more…)