Apex, NC — (press release excerpt) — EMJ Embedded Systems is pleased to announce the release of white dwarf linux, version 1.1. white dwarf linux version 1.1 upgrades the tiny distributon of Linux that developers are finding is ideal for Internet appliances, process control, medical equipment, industrial automation, wireless applications and testing equipment. (more…)

For those following the progress of the collaborative MyLinux PLW project, Rob Wehrli reports that the prototype electronic circuit boards have now been assembled and are in the process of being debugged. (more…)

Linux provides relatively mature support for Advanced Power Management (APM). However, that support depends on code which must be contained within the system's BIOS for functions such as suspend-to-ram, suspend-to-disk, and system power states. Now that the newer Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard is in common use within the laptop/desktop PC realm, APM support can be expected to… (more…)

Hannover, Germany — (press release) — Esfia today announced its SDK and Desktop Emulator for Linux PDAs based on Red Hat 7.0 and the KDE KDevelop environment. Individual developers can now design their applications for MIPS/Arm/StrongArm platforms and migrate them into Esfia's RedBlue/Palmlike environment quickly and efficiently. (more…)

Foreword

ACPI stands for “Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.” This is a specification developed by Toshiba, Intel, and Microsoft. Besides many other things, ACPI also defines power management — which is why ACPI is often compared to the older Advanced Power Management (APM) support. (more…)

Following the recent unveiling of the Midori Linux Project by CPU vendor Transmeta, a number of analysts questioned whether Midori Linux might represent a threat to the… (more…)

Transmeta, the company which claims Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) as an employee, has finally unveiled their long awaited Linux distribution — Midori Linux. (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs today announced the new Open RTLinux v3.0 CD. Based on Red Hat 6.2 for x86 processors, it contains the RTLinux hard real-time kernel, the floppy disk-sized MiniRTL (for small footprint embedded applications), and the RTIC Lab real-time graphical interface, as well as a complete Linux distribution. (more…)

Transmeta, the company which claims Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) as an employee, has finally unveiled their long awaited Linux distribution — Midori Linux. (more…)

The joy of Embedded Linux

Desktop and server users of Linux have long had a wide variety of distributions from which to choose, so you haven't needed to be an expert on the use of GNU tools to install Linux on those kinds of computer. But until about a year ago, if you wanted to embed Linux there wasn't much to do except create your own distribution. (more…)

Erik Andersen, BusyBox maintainer writes . . .

Ok, this took a lot longer then anyone expected but BusyBox 0.50 is now released and a tarball is now sitting on the ftp site waiting for folks to grab it while its hot. This is the announcement I just posted to the web site:

This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. (more…)

Embedded developer Jerry Epplin takes a look at Transmeta's newly unveiled “Midori Linux Project” and offers this perspective. Epplin writes . . . (more…)

Would you like anchovies with your source code? ZDNet columnist Evan Leibovitch compares the incredible diversity available through Linux — and its potential benefits — to a favorite food . . . (more…)

In the upcoming GTK+2.0 release, GTK+ will support rendering directly to the framebuffer instead of using the X Window System. This is good for embedded systems such as PDAs and other systems with very limited resources, because they are able to run without the overhead of an X server while still taking advantage of the power of GTK+ and the large base of existing programs. (more…)

Would you like anchovies with your source code? ZDNet columnist Evan Leibovitch compares the incredible diversity available through Linux — and its potential benefits — to a favorite food . . . (more…)