The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) has issued the following announcement . . .

Dear Members and Friends of the Embedded Linux Consortium: (more…)

News flash: We are proud to welcome AppWatch, featuring Free Software and Open Source announcements and download links, to the ZDNet family. Henry Kingman, Producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, writes . . . (more…)

Features

• Trying Embedded Linux: Converting an Embedded DOS SONAR System to Linux, by Shane Luttrel — With only Linux desktop experience, Shane decides to roll his own embedded Linux. (more…)

For everyone entering the embedded design contest, Tri-M Sytems founder discusses the new MachZ chip and MZ104 board. discusses the new MachZ chip and MZ104 board. (more…)

Create a Busybox single-floppy Linux system that includes a kernel, command-line environment and your application. (more…)

Axis Communications has announced that a new version of the ETRAX system-on-chip will go into production next April. The ETRAX 100LX adds a memory management unit (MMU), USB interface, SDRAM support, and several other enhancements to the already extensive set of features of the existing ETRAX 100. (more…)

Take a peek at Nokia's newest offering in home entertainment. (more…)

REDSonic, Inc. (Santa Ana, CA) today announced the close of its first round of funding, totaling $4M. The investment came from technology companies, financial institutions, and venture capitalists in the US, Singapore, and Taiwan. According to Tony Sy, REDSonic Director of Marketing, the funding round was over-subscribed by $0.7M. (more…)

Conversations with Lineo's Bryan Sparks and MontaVista's Jim Ready (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…)

Win an MZ104 Board!

In the September issue, we said we'd help you learn about embedded Linux. And the best way to learn is hands-on, right? At LinuxWorld Expo in August, I ran into David Feldman, CEO of ZF Linux Devices, and we talked about the idea of doing an embedded Linux contest where we would offer our readers one hundred embeddable Linux… (more…)

This article by LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum provides a profile of the PhatNoise PhatBox, an car mp3 player powered by an internal embedded Linux computer. The article examines how the device works and what's inside — from both a hardware and software perspective. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Dannie Lau, CEO of the company he co-founded in 1999 along with two other UCLA Electrical Engineering graduates, sums up the mission of PhatNoise this way: “As music enthusiasts, we were frustrated by the limited storage and scalability of today's portable digital audio players. So we've gone beyond those concepts and quite literally looked down the road to design products that help users save and sync… (more…)

Overcoming the obstacles of building a lean Linux-based MP3 player. (more…)

Fun and fame: Introducing the Embedded Linux Journal Design Project (more…)