Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat has assisted Wincor Nixdorf in bringing to market the Nixdorf BEETLE Point-of-Sale systems based on Embedded Linux. The BEETLE comes to market amidst
growing competition in the retail sector, which has given rise to a demand for new IT solutions, both in the central office and in stores. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce our new “backend news feed.” It's the world's first up-to-the-minute Embedded Linux Headlines news feed. Now, you can easily have your website designer incorporate our headlines directly into a prominent location on your website. Keep your site's visitors “well fed” with the latest Embedded Linux news! (more…)

Oslo, NORWAY — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software today released a Beta version of Opera 4.0 for Linux, bringing the best browser alternative for Linux one step closer to a final release. Bringing the browser from Technical Preview, to Beta, means that the Internet community now have the opportunity to interact and assist Opera in providing Linux users with the best possible Internet experience. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation has announced enhancements to its TimeSys Linux/RT operating system distribution that add guaranteed real-time and Quality of Service (QoS) networking support. The new QoS networking support comes in addition to other real-time features within the TimeSys Linux/RT operating system.

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The following announcement appears on the Microwindows website, www.microwindows.org . . . (more…)

“The problem began when [MontaVista] announced a 'fully preemptable hard real-time Linux kernel.' Then came the debate about whether their kernel was or was not fully preemptable, and whether or not it was truly hard real-time. But that's not where the debate ends. Nobody thought of questioning another aspect of MontaVista's release — namely . (more…)

(announcement) — ACTIVE Exhibitions and Ascensit are sponsoring a pair of 2-day technical workshops on Real-Time & Embedded Linux, presented by Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing. The Netherlands workshop takes place during the Applied Computing Developers' Conference, on November 7 and 8 in Maastricht (Netherlands). (more…)

Blockbuster 2Wire MediaPoint — Nov. 26, 2008 — This Blockbuster-branded IP set-top box and media player is built by 2Wire, and runs Linux on a MIPS-based Broadcom chipset. (more…)

This guide provides summaries and links of LinuxDevices stories about Linux-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs), ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), and tablets. Note that in many cases there is a fine line between these devices and smaller handhelds, which may be found in our Linux PDAs, PMPs, PNDs, and other Handhelds showcase. (more…)

Zaltbommel, The Netherlands — (press release) — ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe, organiser of the AC Developers' Conference & Expo (ACDevCon), is announcing the conference program, with the main keynote presentation held by Mr. Rick Lehrbaum, founder and executive editor of ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com. (more…)

Sandy, UT — (press release excerpt) — Linux NetworX announced today that the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging (NCMI) at Baylor College of Medicine will use the company's clustered computers in its world-renowned molecular imaging research center. Using a 32-processor cluster system, Baylor College of Medicine reconstructs the molecular configurations of disease and illness-causing viruses and… (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — emWare Inc. announced today that it is releasing the technical specifications for its emNet networking protocol through its Open Program Access License (OPAL) initiative, making emNet open and royalty free. emNet is a simple, lightweight, device networking protocol that enables users to control, manage and report the state of everyday devices. (more…)

ESC San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Embedded Planet announced the availability of RPX Super, a compact, powerful computing platform for developers of intelligent networks. Based on the Motorola MPC8260 PowerQUICC II processor, RPX Super provides developers and OEMs with a high performance, production-ready, networking tool. (more…)

ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has purchased $135 million worth of stock in struggling Canadian software maker [and Linux supplier] Corel, in a move characterized as a strategic alliance targeting Microsoft's .Net software development platform. Foley writes . . . (more…)

MontaVista Software has announced the opening of a Munich office, under the direction of Rudi Latuske, who joined MontaVista earlier this year as Central European Sales Manager. Latuske will initially concentrate his efforts on developing strategic relationships and alliances with major European vendors in order to expand MontaVista's presence across central and Eastern Europe. (more…)