San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) Force Computers today announced a partnership with Lineo to develop a Linux cluster solution with High Availability features for mission-critical applications. (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Century Software Embedded Technologies today announced version 1.1 of its Operating Environment and Development toolkit. The toolkit is intended for developers of Linux based PDAs, WebPADs, and Internet Appliances. The new version adds new wireless applications, multimedia, and enhanced tools. (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…)

Noted on the BusyBox website . . .

Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. For a list of the most interesting changes you might want to look at the changelog. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — LinkUp Systems Corporation today announced its L7210 system-on-chip (SoC) solution, a low-power, high-performance processor for smart cellular phones, wireless Internet terminals, PDAs, music players, and Internet appliances. The L7210 includes an ARM720T processor with sophisticated power management, Bluetooth interface compatibility, Universal Serial Bus… (more…)

Morphing from “black sheep” to “GPL good citizen”

Most Linux users are aware of Qt, the GUI framework on which the KDE desktop environment is based. In the Linux desktop application development world, Qt competes with Gtk+, which forms the basis for the Gnome desktop environment. (more…)

Foreword: This article is the fourth in a LinuxDevices.com series on Exploring Linux PDA Software Alternatives by Jerry Epplin that explores the history, status, alternative architectures, and future developments of Linux on PDAs and handheld devices. (more…)

[Note: in response to this story, Compaq sent LinuxDevices.com a letter to the editor summarizing the history and accomplishments of Compaq's sleep mode support for the StrongARM processor.] (more…)

One year ago, Palo Alto, CA based “ZF Microsystems” changed its name to “ZF Linux Devices” and began promoting an interesting new system-on-chip processor called the “MachZ” as a Linux-oriented silicon device. Why did ZF decide to focus itself on Linux — to the point of a change in corporate name? (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum recently visited ZF Linux Devices and spoke with CEO David Feldman about the MachZ system-on-chip. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Indian Wells, CA; Upside Showcase Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo received the top two awards at the Upside Showcase conference this week. Lineo was the recipient of the “People's Choice” award and the winner of the “Demo Til You're Dropped” award given by conference organizers for the company's demonstration of the Embedix SDK 1.2 software development tool. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat announced the appointment of CTO Michael Tiemann to the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Tiemann has more than 15 years of experience as a developer, consultant, executive and advocate of open source software. (more…)

Stephen Shankland, editor of CNET's News.com, reports that the first projects of a new jointly funded open source developer lab were scheduled to begin this week. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Kfar Sava, Israel — (press release excerpt) — Silicom announced that it has developed proprietary drivers for Linux 2.4.0 in support of its USB Ethernet products, which target the Broadband Internet Access, Multi-Tenant Unit, and Home Networking markets. The USB Ethernet products are available both as standalone products and as modules for integration into Broadband Internet Access modems. (more…)

Here's the latest news on Microwindows, from Greg Haerr at Microwindows.org . . . (more…)