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You might call Neoware a company on a mission. One of many companies struggling to carve out a profitable niche for itself in the market of selling Linux-based products, Neoware has tuned its efforts to what CEO Mike Kantrowitz dubs “Appliance Computing.” (more…)

Oslo, NORWAY -- (press release excerpt) — Birdstep and Screen Media have signed an agreement to cooperate on aspects of development of the FreePad, Screen Media's wireless communication device designed for private domestic use. The FreePad will be the size of an A4 page and will give complete access to the Internet, contain a wireless telephone, and, in time, include an electronic diary and provide… (more…)

COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV — (press release) — Developers of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) today announced the formation of the KDE League, a group of industry leaders and KDE developers focused on facilitating the promotion, distribution and development of KDE. The founding members of the League include leaders from a cross-section of the computer industries: Borland, Caldera, Compaq, Corel,… (more…)

Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet News reports that on Wednesday at Comdex/Fall '00, the backers of the KDE Linux desktop environment are expected to band together and form a corporate-backed group to push KDE as a viable alternative to GNOME. The move echoes a similar effort in support of GNOME at LinuxWorld, this past August. Foley writes . . . (more…)

Henry Kingman, producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, reviews the latest release of Eazel's Nautilus “graphical shell.” Kingman observes that the latest preview release is feature-complete, but lacks performance optimizations and multi-platform support. Kingman writes . . . (more…)

COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. today announced the preview of Embedix SDK 1.2-J being shown at COMDEX Fall 2000, the next release of the Japanese software development kit for embedded developers and device manufacturers. Embedix SDK 1.2-J integrates support with cross-compilations, full support for Hitachi SuperH 3 and 4 RISC processors, and an integrated development… (more…)

COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software, Inc. today debuted the company's thin client solutions for web appliances, PDA/PADs, and other consumer and edge applications. In their booth at the new COMDEX Linux Pavilion (Booth No. P537C), MontaVista is demonstrating Hard Hat Linux for thin clients across a range of consumer-oriented devices, including Compaq's StrongARM-based… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com profiles Sony's new embedded Linux based remote video image acquisition system. The device, which contains an embedded computer based on an Axis ETRAX 100 system-on-chip processor, runs uClinux as its embedded operating system and uses TCP/IP and other standard networking protocols to transfer digital video images anywhere on the web. (more…)

Transmeta Corp., well known as the employer of Linux-creator Linus Torvalds, used the occasion of COMDEX 2000 (Las Vegas, NV) to show off a broad array of new devices containing the company's recently introduced Crusoe processor. In all, the company showcased eleven customer applications — including five notebook computers, five webpad devices, and one Internet server appliance. (more…)

Device overview

The Sony SNT-V304 Video Network Station is the result of a cooperative development between Sony Corporation and Axis Communications Group. The compact device, which contains an embedded Linux operating system running on an Axis ETRAX system-on-chip processor, combined with video processing technologies developed by Axis, transmits images generated by analog video cameras to… (more…)

Orange County, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic today announced the release of RED-Probe, a real-time system event viewer and monitoring tool for REDICE-Linux. RED-Probe is a graphical, real-time, monitoring and profiling tool and an integral component of the REDICE-Linux development system. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum takes a look at recent developments in both PDAs based on Linux, and Linux distro's for PDAs. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)