Santa Rosa, CA — (press release) — The Embedded Linux Consortium today announced the results of the annual election of officers based on nominations and voting conducted by the recently-seated Board of Directors. The officers, their ELC functions and company affiliations are:

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San Jose, CA — (press release) — LynuxWorks, Inc. today announced the release of BlueCat Linux version 3.0, which adds features and expands support of embedded microprocessor architectures. BlueCat Linux now supports the ARM (including the Thumb extensions), StrongARM, and Hitachi SuperH microprocessor architectures. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Computer I/O Corporation has announced Easy I/O DirectWare, a unique embedded software and services “middleware solution” targeting the communications industry. The software enables Microsoft Windows clients to transparently communicate with Linux-based embedded data acquisition servers, without concern for operating system, network compatibility, or protocols. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Motorola Computer Group and Red Hat announced a collaboration to help make Linux ready for telecom applications designed to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Under terms of the agreement, Motorola will package and market Red Hat's Linux operating system with Motorola's Advanced High-Availability Software for Linux (HA-Linux) offering, which will be shipped with… (more…)

At LinuxWorld earlier this week, [email protected] Partner's Steven Vaughan-Nichols caught up with Red Hat's founder and chairman, Bob Young. Young shared some of his predictions about the future of the open source software phenomenon. Vaughan-Nichols writes . . . (more…)

Embedded Linux product development may have just gotten easier, thanks to Embedded Planet's “Linux Planet 1.2” application development platform. The system contains most of the computer functions usually required for embedded designs, including operating system software, and is targeted to developers planning to use embedded Linux along with Motorola's MPC823e PowerPC processor. (more…)

(press release) — OpenHardware.net announces availability of design data for a SIMM-sized 10BaseT Ethernet board. The tiny Ethernet interface board is meant to be used with the EZ328SIMM, a SIMM-sized single-board computer that contains a Motorola MC68EZ328 CPU and is supported by the current uClinux embedded Linux distribution. (more…)

Ottawa, CANADA — (press release excerpt) — Working in cooperation with Intel Corporation, QNX Software Systems today announced that they have optimized their QNX Neutrino realtime operating system (RTOS) for the Intel Pentium III processor family. Optimizations will result in significant performance improvements for developers wishing to run QNX-based solutions on Pentium III platforms. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release) — TimeSys Corp. announced several enhancements to its tools and to platform support for the TimeSys Linux/RT operating system distribution. Additions include TimeSys' TimeTrace and TimeWiz real-time simulation tools, support for several added embedded board platforms, support for multi-processor system architectures, and the TimeWarp integrated development environment (IDE). (more…)

In spite of Red Hat's perceived image as “the Linux company,” the company continues to promote eCos as a light weight and highly configurable alternative to Linux, for deeply embedded applications. Red Hat's ongoing eCos commitment surfaced yesterday in the form of a joint announcement between Red Hat and CrosStor Software. (more…)

Roberta Holland, writing for eWEEK, reports on a speech by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of technology and strategy, at the company's Solutions 2000 conference held this week in Las Vegas, NV. Wladawsky-Berger's statements shed some strategic light on the steadily increasing swirl of Linux activity that appears to be engulfing “big Blue” these days. (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release) — Lineo today announced plans to provide Windows NT and Windows 2000 developers with an integrated Embedix SDK and VMWARE tool kit that allows developers to work in their familiar Windows environment while creating Linux software for embedded devices. The Embedix V-kit provides Windows-hosted developers with a virtual Linux environment that provides them all of the… (more…)

LinuxWorld — (press release) — Lineo today announced the beta for Embedix RealTime, a real-time development environment of Linux. Embedix RealTime is used for mission-critical applications requiring guaranteed response time in the telecom, military simulation, and industrial control markets. (more…)

Motorola Computer Group introduced the newest member of its MBX family of EBX form-factor single-board computers (SBCs) at LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, CA this week. The MBX2000 — a high-performance, low power, and compact SBC — complies with the Ampro/Motorola EBX form-factor standard for embedded computer boards. (more…)

Charles Babcock, of [email protected] Week, provides a detailed on yesterday's LinuxWorld press conference by the newly formed Gnome Foundation, whose members include Helix Code, Sun, HP, Eazel, IBM, VA Linux Systems, Red Hat, TurboLinux, Gnumatic, Henzai, the Free Software Foundation, and the Object Management Group. Babcock writes . . . (more…)