Introduction

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…)

David Woodhouse, project leader of the Linux Memory Technology Device project, has just issued this announcement of the arrival of “JFFS2” — version 2 of the Journaling Flash File System for Embedded Linux . . . (more…)

Orange County and Mountain View, CA — (press release) — REDSonic, Inc. and K Computing are hosting a hands-on Real-Time Embedded Linux Training class in San Jose from April 16-18, 2001. This hands-on tutorial walks the participants through the steps involved in customizing a Linux environment to support an embedded application. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — NeoMagic announced that their new System-on-Chip (SoC) platform for smart handheld devices will be supported LynuxWorks' BlueCat embedded Linux operating system. The new NeoMagic SoC is designed to meet the graphics, audio and video playback, low power consumption, compact form-factor, and affordable price targets required by PDA and other handheld computing… (more…)

There will be a special Embedded Linux “Technical Interests” meeting sponsored by the membership of the Embedded Linux Consortium on Monday, April 9, 2001 in San Francisco, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The meeting is being held in response to mounting pressure for standards discussions in a number of key areas related to embedded Linux. (more…)

Boise, ID — (press release excerpt) — RidgeRun, Inc., announced that it has added support for Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol (SDP) to the OpenBT Linux Bluetooth stack sponsored by Axis Communications. SDP will be incorporated into RidgeRun's upcoming distribution of DSPLinux which is focused on Texas… (more…)

According to this article by Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com, although Palm controls the lion's share of the overall market for handheld computers, its market dominance is slipping in Europe. During 2000, Palm's share of the European PDA market declined from 59 to 55 percent. (more…)

The schedule for talks and BOFs for this year's CLIQ conference has been finalized. The second annual Colorado Linux Info Quest (CLIQ) conference and exhibit (“CLIQ 2001”) will be held Friday, March 30th at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. (Further information is available here.)

Keynote… (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo recently completed porting uClinux to the Motorola ColdFire MCF5272 processor. Lineo has worked closely with Motorola on each of the new ColdFire processors to ensure that uClinux is available as the first Motorola development boards hit the streets. (more…)

San Clemente, CA — (press release excerpt) — The RTC Group has issued a call for papers for its third Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) scheduled for Tuesday, June 26 and Wednesday, June 27 in San Jose, CA. The event will take place at the Wyndham Hotel, 1350 N. First Street, San Jose, CA. (more…)

Exhibitors from the world of academia and leading technology research departments unveiled their latest inventions this week at the ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace conference in San Jose, CA. CNET News.com's senior correspondent Hari Sreenivasan visited the conference to get a peek at the products of the future, and brought back these two particularly interesting video clips of devices that contain… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Transmeta Corporation today announced that it has “open sourced” its Mobile Linux operating system, known as Midori Linux, to allow industry-wide input for its further development. (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; Special to ZDNet . . .

Transmeta, the employer of Linux founder Linus Torvalds, has released Midori, its version of Linux for mobile devices. (more…)

Hanover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Esfia today announced a Chinese Linux PDA solution for the Compaq iPAQ based on its RedBlue/Palmlike environment, which will be demonstrated at CeBit. (more…)

MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux is being used by ITT Industries to enhance the capabilities and effectiveness of a handheld radio communications system for soldiers. ITT is the lead contractor on a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) project to build a “soldiers radio.” The beta version of the radio unit, which is based on multiple StrongARM processors, is expected to be completed… (more…)