New York, NY; LinuxWorld Expo — (press release excerpt) — Today, TimeSys Corporation unveiled TimeSys Linux/RT Version 2.0, a Linux distribution with enhancements to meet embedded real-time quality-of-service requirements. TimeSys Linux/RT Version 2.0 is the world's first complete QoS solution that operates directly within the Linux kernel, rather than running as an additional layer beneath Linux. (more…)

Linux has become a powerful operating system challenging the OS and computer market, because it is open source and adaptable to different hardware and computing problems. As a general purpose operating system, however, Linux optimizes average performance, and is not that appropriate for real time applications. (more…)

Victor Yodaiken has finally published the patent license for RTLinux. The full text of the license is located here. A brief summary of the patent itself can be viewed here. (more…)

Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com reports that Intel is releasing two chips that will compete directly with Transmeta's Crusoe processors in the notebook market. Kanellos writes . . . (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech, IBM, and KDE are teaming up at LinuxWorld to demonstrate IBM's ViaVoice speech-recognition technology running on Trolltech's Qt, a cross-platform C++ GUI framework in the K Desktop Environment. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — DevelopOnline Corporation announced today that developers using STMicroelectronics' STPC platform online can soon take advantage of the Lineo Embedix operating system. More than 200 development projects have been registered for the STPC platform in the first quarter of operation at DevelopOnline's product development acceleration site for Linux developers. (more…)

Half Moon Bay, CA — (press release excerpt) — OnCore Systems Corporation today began shipping comprehensive support for IBM's PowerPC 405 embedded processor, Revision D, the latest release of this high-power embedded processor line. IBM's integrated, cost-conscious “system-on-a-chip” PowerPC 405 RISC processors deliver up to 375 MIPS of processing power and come equipped with an integrated MMU plus a… (more…)

Filanet Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA) aims to provide small and medium sized businesses with plug-and-play “big company networking” capabilities through an “Internet service appliance” known as the InterJak. Accordingly, the company's InterJak 200 is meant to be an easy-to-use, compact, appliance-like device which implements the functions of an Internet gateway, VPN/firewall, email server, file sharing, and… (more…)

This guest editorial by Jerry Epplin reviews and discusses the history of Trolltech's open source licensing of Qt, Qt/Embedded, and the Qt Palmtop Environment (QPE), and draws an interesting comparison with customary practices in “free market” economies. Epplin writes . . . (more…)

This article is Part 4 of the exciting new LinuxDevices.com series by Jerry Epplin that explores the history, status, alternative architectures, and future developments of Linux on PDAs and handheld devices. In this installment, Jerry explains how to download, install, configure, and test Trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment (QPE), and gives his impressions of what it's like to develop handheld apps using… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Coventive Technologies and AXIS Corporation (Yokohama, Japan) today announced plans to preview a new Linux-based home TV-and-Web appliance at this week's LinuxWorld Expo/New York City. The new appliance, dubbed “canD,” is part of the first wave of commercial consumer technology products based on the open source Linux software operating system. (more…)

Beijing, China — (press release) — Coventive Technologies today unveiled plans to provide an embedded Linux software solution for hand-held PCs to Legend Computers, a major IT company and PC manufacturer in China. The solution is based on a Chinese embedded Linux OS developed by Coventive, called “XTinux 1.0”, which is optimized for information appliance products requiring a very small software… (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — Cradle Technologies, Inc. today announced strategic investments from CIBC Capital Partners, Charter Ventures, Mingly Ventures, Ltd, Red Hat, Inc., Signal Lake Ventures II LLP, and Smart Technology Ventures. The current round of $20 million brings the total invested in Cradle to date to $34 million. (more…)

Filanet Corporation has announced its latest Internet Service Appliance, the InterJak 200. The device is basically a compact, integrated, and cost-effective system (with Linux inside) that makes it easy for small and remote offices to share Internet access, files and printers, and LAN/WAN network services. (more…)

eWEEK has used the occasion of the start of LinuxWorld Expo in New York to publish a “state of the OS” editorial about Linux. Here are a few short excerpts . . . (more…)