San Jose, CA — (press release) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) today formally announced the results of its first election for the organization's Board of Directors. The 90+ member ELC voted from a field of nearly 30 candidates, resulting in the election of six. Now installed, the Board is responsible for taking the organization to the next level as a proactive strategic initiative favoring the… (more…)

Adding to support previously announced by embedded Linux suppliers Lineo and MontaVista (see references, below), TimeSys today announced a pSOS Abstraction Layer (PAL) that works in conjunction with the company's Linux/RT embedded Linux distribution. The abstraction layer maps pSOS system calls to TimeSys Linux/RT calls. (more…)

Introduction, by Rick Lehrbaum: According to a recent poll of developers of embedded Linux based systems, a third of all new systems will contain an M-Systems DiskOnChip Flash disk as the primary boot and storage device. (more…)

Lineo Inc. and Hitachi Semiconductor have announced plans to port Lineo's Embedix Linux software to Hitachi's SuperH RISC microprocessors. The collaboration will support makers of intelligent mobile devices, Internet appliances, and other embedded systems, including such products as smart phones, e-commerce terminals. (more…)

Active Exhibitions Europe has issued a formal “call for papers” for the Applied Computing Developers' Conference & Expo, which will be held November 6-11 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Talks on embedded and real-time Linux technologies and applications are especially desired. Following, is the text of the request . . . (more…)

Red Hat has announced a specialized version of the Red Hat Linux 6.2 distribution called “the Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0”. The new product is described as “an out-of-the-box clustering solution that features dynamic load balancing, improved fault tolerance, and scalability of TCP/IP based applications.” (more…)

Microwindows v0.88 will provide greatly enhanced support for Far Eastern languages. The new release adds support for Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean fonts, using four different character encoding standards. Beta version 0.88pre9, containing the new support, is currently available for download from the Microwindows project website. (more…)

David Sugar, Bayonne GNU maintainer, writes . . . In finalizing the fourth milestone release for Bayonne (the telephony server of the GNU project), much work has gone into making Bayonne not just more stable and usable as a traditional telephony server, but also in expanding the very definition of computer-driven telephony services and Bayonne's integration with other existing services. (more…)

This whitepaper, by Microwindows Project leader Greg Haerr, explains how you can greatly simplify the task of porting a non-Linux graphics application to embedded Linux. The magic lies in taking advantage of “glue layers” that convert between APIs. Haerr writes . . . (more…)

Glue layers can greatly simplify the porting of applications from one software environment to another. The concept of a “glue layer” becomes especially practical when there is a large body of already-debugged application software, and it's not desireable to recode that software to a new, different programming interface. (more…)

BOSTON, Embedded Systems Conference Summer 2000 — (press release) — M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. announced today that leading Linux operating system developers are providing support for DiskOnChip in existing and upcoming Linux distributions. Lineo, a leading developer of embedded Linux systems software, is currently integrating support for DiskOnChip into Embedix, its embedded Linux
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BLAST Inc. (Pittsboro, NC) has launched a new website dedicated to the embedded Linux market: www.SiliconPenguin.com. In his announcement of the site, BLAST president Steve Rogers said “www.SiliconPenguin.com is dedicated to gathering and presenting the most comprehensive index of information on embedded Linux. (more…)

Lineo and National Semiconductor today announced an agreement to co-develop Linux based software development kits for the Information Appliance (IA) market. Target applications include set-top boxes, web pads, and other such devices. The reference platforms will be based on Embedix, Lineo's embedded Linux operating system and tools software, and will support National's Geode processor hardware reference… (more…)

Lineo has announced that the company's Vice President of Engineering, Kim Clark, will participate in a COMDEX Canada “Power Panel” discussion on “Why Embedded Linux?” The event takes places on Thursday, July 13 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Linux Business Expo featured at this week's COMDEX Canada 2000. (more…)

Dr. Peter Wurmsdobler and Nicholas McGuire have unveiled a plan to launch a new Real Time Linux Consortium (RTLC) at the second Real Time Linux Workshop being held this November in Orlando, Florida. Here is an overview of the purpose and scope of the proposed organization, from Dr. Wurmsdobler . . . (more…)