Seoul, Korea — (press release excerpt) — Mizi Research Inc. today introduced LINUETTE V1.0, a specialized Linux OS which provides enhanced multimedia capabilities tailored to the requirements of high-end PDAs and handheld PCs. (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; Special to ZDNet . . .

Linux newcomers are becoming part of the mainstream effort to create software for non-PC “embedded” computing devices, as indicated by a host of trade show announcements. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced the submission of its hot swap infrastructure code to the Open Source Community. MontaVista is releasing the hot swap code as a project on Source Forge with two goals: to encourage a wide adoption of the base software, and… (more…)

CNET News.com's David Becker reports that Indrema, which hoped to carve a niche in the lucrative video game industry with a console based on the Linux operating system, announced Wednesday that it is going out of business. Becker writes . . . (more…)

San Francisco;Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. today announced the Lineo Embedix Board Development Kit (BDK). The Lineo Embedix BDK is a complete development environment for configuring, customizing and deploying Linux-based embedded solutions. Each BDK is tailored to a specific board used in various embedded devices. (more…)

According to the results of a subscriber study recently conducted by Embedded Systems Programming magazine, developer interest in using Embedded Linux appears to be growing at an astronomical pace. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — The Board of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) [today will propose the development of] a single unified specification for an embedded Linux platform to its 124 member companies. (more…)

Agenda Computing will demonstrate what is claimed to be “the world's first pure Linux PDA” at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco today (April 10). The demonstration of the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA will take place in the “Tux Theatre” area of the Embedded Linux Consortium's ESC booth (booth 101), at 2:30… (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic Inc. announced today that it is partnering with Flash memory device manufacturer M-Systems in order to provide support for M-Systems' DiskOnChip Flash memory devices under REDSonic's real-time and embedded Linux OS. (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC), publisher of the bi-monthly print magazine Embedded Linux Journal (ELJ), is pleased to announce the second ELJ contest, based on the New Internet Computer (NIC). (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. and Trolltech AS today announced the deepening of the companies' current partnership to provide a comprehensive embedded Linux solution. The terms of the new agreement involve a new degree of cooperation between these two embedded Linux companies. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. announced today that it has opened an office in Silicon Valley to become the new Lineo Embedded Systems Center (LESC) focused on sales, marketing, and services functions under the direction of Richard Larsen, senior vice president of sales, marketing and services, Lineo Inc. (more…)

Erik Andersen, BusyBox maintainer, writes . . .

I am very pleased to announce BusyBox 0.51 (a.k.a. “the rock-solid release”). Tarballs are already sitting on the ftp site waiting for you. Here is the announcement I just placed on the busybox web site:

BusyBox 0.51 (the “rock-solid release”) is now out there. (more…)

John G. Spooner of ZDNet News reports on the latest system-on-chip news from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco . . . (more…)

Hari Sreenivasan of CNET's News.com speaks with Ian LeWinter, chief strategy officer of Agenda Computing, about Agenda's new “pure Linux PDA” in this online interview. LeWinter discusses Agenda's plans to compete with Palm and Microsoft in the handheld computer market, and presents reasons why Agenda's open source Embedded Linux approach offers a superior solution for both developers and users. (more…)