In this LinuxDevices.com Device Profile, Rick Lehrbaum previews the Yopy PDA, takes a look under its hood, and describes the Yopy Linux application development environment. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:01:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds ([email protected])
To: Kernel Mailing List [email protected]
Subject: And oh, btw.. (more…)

G.Mate Inc. describes the Yopy PDA as a “multimedia PDA based on the Linux OS and Yopy Windows” — a device which “focuses on organizing your life while emphasizing multimedia functionality.” The Yopy integrates the functions of Internet and email access (via mobile phone), digital voice recorder, MP3 (audio) and MPEG (video) player, video games, plus a full set of PDA applications — all within a compact… (more…)

Linux kernel 2.4 didn't quite make it out in 2000, but it's getting close. Here are two reports on its progress, from eWEEK's Peter Galli and ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley. (more…)

Many in the RTOS industry believe that freedom from royalties is the best way to develop applications for embedded devices. But is free software really free? (more…)

Las Vegas, NV — (press release excerpt) — Philips Semiconductors and SoftConnex Technologies have announced an integrated USB host solution based on combining SoftConnex's Universal Serial Bus (USB) USBLink host software with Philips Semiconductors' single-chip USB host and interface controller, the ISP1161/2. (more…)

El Dorado Hills, CA — (press release excerpt) — in an effort to allow users of embedded microprocessors and DSPs to make quicker, informed comparisons between devices, EEMBC, the embedded microprocessor benchmark
consortium, today announced that it will begin publishing certified, consolidated benchmark scores for processor performance in five application areas: networks, telecom, consumer, office… (more…)

ZDNet editors Michael Kanellos and Mary Jo Foley report that Advanced Micro Devices plans to take on Intel in the server market, enlisting one of its own competitors (Transmeta) to help out. Kanellos & Foley write . . . (more…)

The Linux Interest Group is holding an open meeting during the first day of the next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum which takes place on 6th-8th February, 2001, at the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California. (more…)

Feature

• Embedding Linux on an MZ104, by Luke Dion — Mr. Dion gives a step-by-step on putting this tiny ticker to use. (more…)

Transmeta began as the most private company in the whole Linux space. Now it's the most public. Or at least the most recently public. (more…)

As part of its continuing efforts to support the rapidly growing Embedded Linux Market, LinuxDevices.com (“the Embedded Linux Portal”) is pleased to announce the online 2001 Embedded Linux Market Survey. The survey asks developers of Linux-based embedded systems and intelligent devices to anonymously provide information about their applications, their embedded Linux OS requirements and preferences,… (more…)

Welcome to the first issue of Embedded Linux Journal. (more…)

Using embedded Linux, a broadcast radio network interface was designed and prototyped in a substantially reduced time frame compared to other methods. other methods. (more…)

Reader love letters… passing information . . . MZ104, we want one now! . . . errata/erratum/erratinator. (more…)