Cambridge, UK — (press release excerpt) — 3G LAB today announced the launch of Alligata Server — the world's first supported Open Source integrated WAP & SMS gateway. The Alligata mobile Internet server — downloadable for free from 3G LAB's website — enables content providers to set up communities of mobile users with new functionality, applications and services on the move, over the air. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC (press release excerpt) — Red Hat today announced an initiative with North Carolina State University, to standardize their College of Engineering academic computing environment (Eos) on open source technologies. The initial deployment will feature Red Hat Linux on Dell Optiplex hardware and will expose thousands of College of Engineering students to open source software. (more…)

(press release) — SuSE Linux 7.0 passed 233 of the 243 tests in the Linux Standards Board's Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (LSB-FHS2.1-1) test. SuSE's Distribution surpassed Red Hat in compliance by 10 tests, Caldera by 29, Mandrake by 33, and TurboLinux by 14, making SuSE Linux 7.0 the most standards-compliant Linux distribution tested. (more…)

eWEEK technical analyst Jason Brooks recently took a look at the QNX Real-time Platform. In this article, Brooks explains why some developers may find that QNX offers a few important pluses over embedded Linux. Brooks writes . . . (more…)

People keep asking, “All this stuff about Embedded Linux 'taking off like a rocket' sounds great, but are any companies really using Embedded Linux in real products? . . . and, if so, when are some of these Embedded Linux based products going to start hitting the market?” (more…)

Richard Shim of ZDNet News writes that 3Com has taken a different tack from other Internet appliance vendors, by going after early adopters with its new Audrey device. The $499 Audrey Internet Appliance takes aim at a segment of the market that other competitors, such as Netpliance, Compaq, eMachines, and the newly minted S3 spin-off Frontpath, have been ignoring: the connected household. (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release) — Lineo today announced the appointment of Richard Larsen as the senior vice president of Lineo's worldwide sales operations. Effective immediately, Larsen assumes responsibility for the company's overall sales strategy to corporate accounts, OEMs, resellers, systems integrators, service providers and end users. (more…)

Peter Galli, of eWEEK, reports on the latest delays in the release of Linux kernel version 2.4. Galli writes . . . (more…)

Michael Lee (of MIZI Research) provided the following translation of an article which appeared in the Korean edition of eWEEK . . . (more…)

Never underestimate Microsoft, especially when it comes to anything involving Linux. Take its recent $135 million bailout of struggling Canadian software maker Corel. An SEC filing says Corel could port .Net to Linux. And — surprise — Microsoft was threatening to sue Corel, not vice versa. Mary Jo Foley, of ZDNet News, writes . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — STMicroelectronics rolled out three new chips in its STPC family of highly integrated x86 PC-compatible system-on-chip (SOC) devices at the Embedded Microprocessor Forum earlier this week. The 0.25µ fabrication technology allows the three devices to offer high integration, low power consumption, and low cost. (more…)

Nicholas Petreley, the founding editor of LinuxWorld, has published an editorial that is highly critical of the current efforts by the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project. The LSB, observes Petreley, is doomed to irrelevance unless it can establish a more aggressive leadership and agenda. Petreley writes . . . (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — Specialized Systems Consultants (SSC), the publisher of Linux Journal, has announced the launch of a magazine focusing on the use of Open Source software and Linux in embedded technologies. The new print publication, titled Embedded Linux Journal, will debut in January 2001. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation will present two Real-Time and Quality of Service Technology (QoS) workshops for the public in November and December. The workshops, previously presented only to government groups and large corporations, will be in San Francisco and Philadelphia. (more…)

The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0 RC2, the second and (barring any unforeseen problems) final release candidate for Kopernicus (KDE 2.0), KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. The KDE team has previously released five Beta versions — the first on May 10 of this year — publicly; the sole prior release candidate was released internally only. (more…)