Hillsboro, OR — (press release excerpt) — RadiSys Corp., along with partners MontaVista Software and GoAhead Software, claim they have demonstrated the industry's first high availability system based on a truly open architecture. Called the “Open Availability Architecture,” this latest technology enables carrier-class OEMs to easily define and purchase application-ready computing platforms which meet… (more…)

New York, NY — Wasabi Systems today announced the completion of a preliminary port of NetBSD to AMD's 64-bit x86-64 architecture. The port has been tested on Virtutech's VirtuHammer x86-64 simulation tool. AMD x86-64 technology is designed to support applications that address large amounts of physical and virtual memory, such as high performance servers, database management systems, and CAD tools. (more…)

Beijing, Taipei, & Hong Kong — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Beijing Orient Electronics Group Co. (BOE), a leading manufacturer of electronics components and display devices, to co-develop embedded Linux software solutions to run Internet appliances in Greater China. (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet . . .

Microsoft lawyers have joined the company's campaign against open-source software, restricting how developers may use what it terms “viral software” in connection with Microsoft programming tools. (more…)

Murry Shohat, Executive Director of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC), writes . . .

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Embedded operating system vendor LynuxWorks, Inc. has decided to abandon it's plan for a near term IPO. LynuxWorks offers an embedded Linux distribution called “BlueCat Linux” and also a proprietary real-time operating system called “LynxOS”. (more…)

At the next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, which takes place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas on July 18-19, the forum will explore possibilities for standardizing real-time functions within POSIX Profiles that can unify Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. (more…)

[Updated March 22, 2002] Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) unveiled a prototype of a new Linux-powered consumer music appliance at the Tech X NY trade show in New York during the week of June 25, 2001. Although the device — called the HP Digital Entertainment Center — contains more computing power than most desktop PCs, it is narrowly focused on being a “single function appliance” in which… (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) has announced that RTLinux and the RTLinux Development Kit are now available for several PowerPC 860 evaluation boards. Stress tests of the boards show worst case measured periodic jitter times of less than 14 microseconds. (more…)

MontaVista Software announced today that Ericsson AS, the Norwegian affiliate of Ericsson, will be purchasing an undisclosed quantity of product subscriptions to MontaVista¹s Hard Hat Linux (HHL) development platform. (more…)

By Mike Ricciuti; Special to ZDNet . . .

Atlanta, GA — While he has no objection to open-source development efforts, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is concerned about the “Pac-Man-like nature” of the license that governs the distribution of such software. In an interview Tuesday with CNET News.com at the TechEd 2001 conference, Gates observed that Microsoft routinely shares the source code… (more…)

Henry Baltazar and Timothy Dyck of eWEEK report on the surprising results of eWeek Labs' Web server benchmark, in which Red Hat's Tux 2.0 webserver was compared with the venerable Apache. Baltazar and Dyck write . . . (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet . . .

The foundation of the open-source movement has just shifted. (more…)

Michael P. Deignan of CNET Reviews recently road-tested Metrowerks' CodeWarrior for Linux, Professional Edition 6.0. Deignan writes . . . (more…)

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Trying to bolster its reputation in the fast-changing Linux world, Compaq Computer will release software designed to make Linux computers better able to withstand crashes or other interruptions. (more…)