Sunnyvale, CA — (press release) — Red Hat, Inc., announced today the release of source code for Source-Navigator, the leading Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for UNIX and Windows. Source-Navigator, along with Insight, the graphical debugger based on gdb, and gcc, the Open Source compiler, forms a fully functional graphical integrated development environment that is used by developers to edit… (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release) — The Real Time Application Interface (RTAI) development team led by Paolo Mantegazza of Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale Politecnico di Milano (DIAPM) has announced the beta release of RTAI version 24.1.0. The most notable items of this new version are its support for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture and for the Linux 2.4 kernel. (more…)

This guest column by Kevin Dankwardt originated as a talkback to the LinuxDevices.com article entitled “What is Linux?” (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum interviewed eight Linux and open source luminaries, to assemble this perspective on “What is Linux?” for the embedded Linux market. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

San Francisco — (press release) — Online computer information source CNET Networks Inc. said Wednesday it would buy Ziff-Davis Inc.'s online business ZDNet for $1.6 billion in stock, in a bid to create a leader in providing technology information and services. (more…)

EE Times editor Bernard Cole reports that IBM is preparing to unveil, next week, a broad set of embedded Java initiatives developed by its subsidiary, Object Technology Inc. Cole writes . . . (more…)

[updated: July 18, 2000] Scyld Computing has released a GPL Linux driver for the CATC NetMate USB-to-Ethernet Link. The NetMate connects systems to Ethernet LANs via a USB port. The Scyld driver adds plug-and-play USB support to systems incorporating the Linux 2.2 kernel, and supports several chip-level USB-to-Ethernet controllers (including one made by CATC). (more…)

PC-Doctor, Inc. has announced PC-Doctor for Linux, a diagnostic software package that checks system configuration and performs over 350 tests for quick resolution of hardware problems. According to company sources, the product also provides “an enterprise-strength and structured diagnostic environment” for embedded Linux applications. (more…)

Palm Palm Technology, a Korean-based Embedded Linux solution developer, has announced receipt of an investment totaling $6M from local venture funds. The company has recently developed “Tynux,” an Embedded Linux distribution targeting the requirements of the mobile device market including wireless Internet access terminals and cellular phones. (more…)

This article at IT-Director.com explores the snowballing trend of using Linux as the operating system inside smart devices and embedded systems, in light of the recent launch of a Japan Embedded Linux Consortium by two dozen Japanese electronics companies. (more…)

Why even ask that question?

Linux is in the midst of being shaped and molded to fit thousands of applications ranging from tiny hand-held (or smaller) appliances to huge cluster-based supercomputers. That process is advanced by the free and open availability of Linux source code. (more…)

Steven J. Vaughan Nichols, writing at [email protected] Partner, takes a look at the growing trend of using Linux as the operating system embedded within Information Appliances. Nichols surveys the main embedded OS alternatives (including those from Microsoft, Wind River, and Embedded Linux vendors), explains why Embedded Linux is gaining momentum, and gives some advice on how to select an Embedded Linux software… (more…)

A preliminary version of the RTAI real-time extension for Linux is now available for testing with Linux kernel 2.4.xx. Paolo Mantegazza, RTAI project leader, says the new release “is a relatively advanced porting of RTAI to the approaching Linux [kernel] 2.4.xx, both for [Intel-x86] and PowerPC architectures”. (more…)

ZDNet editor Will Knight reports that embedded Linux is looking like a good horse to back in Western and Northern Europe. Knight writes . . . (more…)

Axis Communications, a pioneer in embedding Linux in smart appliances and one of 37 founding members of the BlueTooth Special Interest Group, announced that it has joined three Bluetooth technical working groups and intends to be highly proactive in efforts to advance the development of emerging Bluetooth standards. (more…)