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…)

Writing at penguinppc.org, Jeramy B. Smith comments on the growing presence of MontaVista Software in the PowerPC Linux development arena. Smith writes . . . (more…)

Silicon Valley and San Clemente, CA — (press release) — The RTC Group and K Computing have teamed up to provide hands-on training in conjunction with the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC), which is being held near Boston, MA on October 27, 2000. The hands-on workshop will be held one day prior to the Embedded Linux Expo and Conference — on Thursday, October 26, 2000. (more…)

Who says you can't get something for nothing?

LinuxDevices.com has opened up the product listing area of its popular “Embedded Linux Portal” website for free product listings from companies in the Embedded Linux Market. Note: the listings are free — the products aren't necessarily free ;) (more…)

Back in the late 70's, the big story in embedded electronics was about programmed microprocessors replacing dedicated logic controllers. “Firmware” was beginning to replace “hard-wired logic” in all sorts of automated systems. The chips that fueled that process were first the 4004, 8008, and 8080 microprocessors, and later the 6502, 8051, and 68HC11 microcontrollers. (more…)

Announcement from the FSMLabs website . . .

RTLinux 3.0-pre8 is now available. We expect this to be the last pre-release before a final 3.0. Please take a look and send us any bugs, missing features, suggestions or kudos. All users of V3.0pre7 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this new release. (more…)

Who is Epitera, and what is AbsoluteX? Visit Epitera's new website, and you'll find the following tantalizing statement:

Epitera is developing a state of the art easy to use desktop environment for the home market. Our system will include a personal assistant, powerful graphical interface and true Internet orientation. (more…)

A fully GPL-compliant solution for installing and running a bootable DiskOnChip flash disk in a Linux-based system is now available directly from M-Systems. The solution is offered in binary form (without source), and provides two approaches to incorporating DiskOnChip into the Linux system:

• Compiled as part of the Linux kernel (“built-in”)
• Compiled as a loadable kernel module (“loadable… (more…)

QNX reports that there have now been over 200,000 downloads of the “free” version of QNX on the company's get.qnx.com website. “With over 45,000 pre-registered users and developers, we expected a healthy response,” said QNX President Gordon Bell. “But truth is, we've been blown away — not just by the sheer number of downloads, but by the rave reviews people are giving the platform itself.”

Anyone… (more…)

The following presentation about the status and goals of the Japan Embedded Linux Consortium (EMBLIX) was given by John Cheuck, EMBLIX Vice Chairman (and Vice President, Embedded Division, Turbolinux Japan), at the first bi-annual membership meeting of the ELC held on September 28, 2000 in San Jose, CA . . . (more…)

Every day the web site at www.nanux.com gets visitors looking for an exciting new product. . . On some days, emails are backed up waiting for more information about this newest embedded Linux. This would seem the dream of most business owners! However at Nanux, it is not. You see, the visitors and emails are looking for Nanix, with an “i”. (more…)

(announcement) — Members of the FSMLabs RTLinux team are heading around the world to spread the word about real-time and embedded operating systems.

• CEO Victor Yodaiken will be giving a talk in Yokahama, Japan on October 4. info (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum offers a perspective and retrospective on the current state of embedded Linux, and its progress over the past year, after attending the “big” Embedded Systems Conference in September, 2000. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Foreword: the following talk on the state of Embedded Linux and the status and goals of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) was given by Inder Singh, ELC Chairman (and CEO of LynuxWorks), at the first bi-annual membership meeting of the ELC held on September 28, 2000 in San Jose, CA . . . (more…)

If you could travel back in time to the Embedded Systems Conference of September 1999, you would find that the “Embedded Linux Market” simply did not exist, one short year ago. Sure, a growing number of developers and a handful of companies were starting to embed Linux. But as a market that anyone tracked, or paid attention to, Embedded Linux simply hadn't made it onto the radar screens. (more…)