Munich, GERMANY — (press release excerpt) — Lineo has announced the establishment of Lineo GmbH in Munich and appointed Werner Hartwig and Ronan Gonidec as sales directors in the Lineo EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) sale division. The Munich office is the sales headquarters for Lineo's Central European region, consisting of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and eastern
Europe. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum previews a new Embedded Linux based intelligent Internet service appliance, the InterJak 100 from Filanet. The system, which is based on a custom ARM 940T system-on-chip processor running uClinux, aims to provide small and medium sized businesses with “big company networking capabilities” — including the functions of an Internet gateway, VPN/firewall, email server, and… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software today announced availability of the Linux Trace Toolkit for PowerPC developers. The Linux Trace Toolkit is a suite of tools designed to extract and interpret execution details of multiple programs from the Linux operating system. (more…)

Poway, CA — (press release) — the Applied Computing Conference and Expo 2001 has announced its annual Call for Papers. The technical conference and exhibition, to be held May 14-17, 2001 in Santa Clara, California, will focus on the convergence between mainstream technologies and the dedicated computing space. (more…)

eWEEK Labs editor Peter Coffee takes a look at Bluetooth version 1.0 specifications, and concludes that they offer secure, convenient, “personal network” foundations. The article provides some useful information about what Bluetooth is, the current status of its development, and
a few currently available implementations of Bluetooth in products. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — M-Systems today unveiled a new, universal, portable secured data storage device based on flash memory. The new DiskOnKey is an ergonomically designed pocketable, pen-sized device. It is based on pair of M-Systems patents: one for the TrueFFS flash file system technology, and another for the newly developed DiskOnKey technology. (more…)

Mountain View, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software has announced software support for MMC Networks' high-speed Internet Protocol (IP) router reference design based completely on off-the-shelf network processing hardware and open-source Linux-based software. According to the two companies, this joint reference design signals a significant advance for the networking industry, allowing a… (more…)

Andrew Josey, of the Open Group, submitted this status report on the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum . . . (more…)

“Open source software” — also known as “free software” — is NOT free.

After all, it doesn't simply grow on trees. Lots of individuals and companies invest lots of hours — and sweat — in creating, testing, and maintaining that so-called “free” software. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum attended the 2nd Embedded Linux Expo & Conference in Westborough, MA last week, and filed this report. Included are the slide presentations from most of the technical talks, plus a review of the newly added full-day embedded Linux hands-on workshop (in which the participants learned how to create an Embedded Linux based mp3 player appliance). (more…)

I suspect it will come as no surprise that the second Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC), held October 27, 2000 in Westborough, MA (near Boston), was another great success! As in the case of last June's ELEC, the event was well attended from both the attendee and exhibitor perspective, and the day was permeated by a clear sense that Embedded Linux is truly “a market on fire.”

The… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA; Toronto, ON — (press release excerpt) — V3 Semiconductor Inc. has announced Linux support for developers of MIPS processor based embedded PCI applications. The new Linux Board Support Package (BSP) supports the V3 Hurricane Platform, which features the RM5231 Embedded MIPS Processor from PMC-Sierra and the V320USC Universal PCI System Controller from V3 Semiconductor. (more…)

Square D (LaVergne, TN) has embedded Linux inside a newly developed power system monitoring and control appliance. The device, called the POWERLOGIC Thin Server, contains a PC-like ('X86') embedded computer that makes use of Linux and other open source software as its internal operating system environment. (more…)

Though not an embedded Linux story, this news item is significant in that it indicates the growing commitment of major industry giants to Linux. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reports that IBM has announced what it calls the biggest Linux deal ever. Foley writes . . . (more…)

John Lombardo writes . . .

The November 2000 Linux Journal comes with an attached “Embedded Linux Journal” sub-magazine. The front of this new magazine shows ZF Linux's MachZ x86 PC board. On page 10-11, they announce a contest — they're giving away 100 boards with supporting material. (more…)