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

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

Pay attention; here's the outline for the first Embedded Linux Journal design project. Journal design project (more…)

Does home automation with Linux make sense? The leader of the Linux Home Automation Project describes his system and looks into the future. (more…)

The father of real-time Linux talks to ELJ about the past, present and future of RTLinux. (more…)

Set up your Linux box as a Palm development platform and write your first application. (more…)

Rip it out, make copies, do whatever you have to — just don't lose it! lose it! (more…)

LinuxDevices.com is one year old today, Halloween, 2000. I purposely launched the site on Halloween, 1999, for symbolic reasons (heard of the Halloween Documents?). (more…)

Linden, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo has announced Embedix (Embedded Linux) support for IDT's RC32334 32-bit MIPS-32 based integrated processor. The RC32334 includes built-in interrupt, DMA, timing, and memory controllers, plus a dual-channel UART and a built-in PCI bus bridge. (more…)

Agenda Computing has manufactured a limited pre-production build of several hundred VR3 PDAs (see story) and is going to make them available at a highly discounted price to developers who want to be in the forefront of creating apps for the new Linux PDA. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Cirrus Logic today announced the CS89712 System-On-Chip (SOC) for Internet communications devices. The CS89712 is the company's first device to combine a low power, high-performance 74MHz ARM720TDMI Core, 10Mbps Ethernet connectivity (MAC and PHY), built-in LCD controller, plus a wide array of internal peripherals. (more…)

Trolltech announced today that Qt/Embedded will follow in the footsteps of its larger sibling, Qt/Unix, which last month became available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Qt/Unix provides the graphical user interface (GUI) underpinnings of KDE, currently the most popular windowing system for Linux. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — LynuxWorks today announced the availability of the SpyKer event trace and visualization tool for software developers building embedded systems with the LynuxWorks LynxOS real-time operating system, BlueCat Linux, or other Linux distributions. SpyKer is the only commercial trace tool that traces kernel events without the need for instrumented kernel and library events and… (more…)

Metro Link and OnCore Systems have formed a strategic alliance aimed to provide a real-time Linux based graphical solution to customers in mission-critical avionics applications requiring robust platforms and FAA RTCA/EUROCAE DO-178B certification. The collaboration will be based on the combination of Metro Link's X Window System server, Micro-X, along with the OnCore Operating System in its embedded… (more…)

For those in the Boston area, you have a unique opportunity to see the amazing IBM Linux wrist watch TOMORROW (Friday, Oct. 27) and meet the leader of the IBM Linux Wrist Watch Project (Alex Morrow). (more…)