Rebel.com (Ottawa, Canada) has selected Transmeta's Crusoe processor family as the CPU platform for a future line of Linux-based residential and small business gateways in its NetWinder OfficeServer product line. (more…)

Centura Software today announced db.star, a secure, high-performance ultra-small footprint open source database solution for embedded and mobile devices. db.star runs on multiple embedded OS platforms, including Linux, and is designed to facilitate instant access by mobile devices to enterprise information, dynamically and securely. (more…)

As part of an “ask Linus” series, LinuxMall.com puts the question Linux creator Linus Torvalds, “Do you think Linux will avoid following the same 'fragmentation' route that killed UNIX? Why and how?” Not surprisingly, Linus provides an interesting and highly inciteful answer . . . (more…)

As part of its continuing efforts to measure and characterize the Embedded Linux Market, LinuxDevices.com is conducting an ongoing poll entitled “What do you value most about open source?” The picture is now starting to come into focus — and the results are surprisingly different from what many have probably assumed. (more…)

Lineo has announced compatibility libraries, code-named “Golden Gate”, that offer developers an easy way to convert VxWorks and pSOS programs into programs that can be hosted instead on Lineo's Embedix Linux operating system. (more…)

Neoware Systems demonstrated a beta version of NeoLinux 2.0, Neoware's embedded Linux operating system, at PC Expo in New York this week. NeoLinux 2.0 contains several new Neoware-designed innovations that target the needs of the burgeoning market for information appliances. (more…)

Matthew Campbell today released ZipSpeak 7.1-1, a talking mini-distribution of Linux developed for use by visually impaired people. The new version adds support for several speech synthesizers, simplifies Speakup customization, makes Web browsing easier, and adds support for international keyboard layouts. (more…)

Lineo has announced opensource.lineo.com, a website dedicated to open source projects funded or maintained by Lineo and its employees. The site provides open source developers and community members with convenient access to high quality open source software designed for embedded Linux systems by concentrating the open source projects of… (more…)

MontaVista Inc. laid claim to producing the industry's first mass-distributed embedded Linux CD, as 138,000 copies of a CD titled “Hard Hat Linux, Journeyman Edition” shipped within shrink-wrapped copies of the June edition of EDN Magazine. The special distribution of MontaVista's embedded Linux Cross Development Kit were included as a supplement to the magazine's June cover story, entitled “Linux strafes… (more…)

Cowboy Industries (Lewisville, TX) has created what might represent the world's first PowerPC-based single-board computers (SBCs) on the PC/104-Plus embedded computer form-factor. The company offers two variants of the new SBC, called the MORGAN and the SHIRE, based on Motorola's MPC750 and MPC7400 CPUs, respectively. (more…)

As part of its continuing efforts to measure and characterize the Embedded Linux Market, LinuxDevices.com is conducting an ongoing poll entitled “What do you value most about open source?” The picture is now starting to come into focus — and the results are surprisingly different from what many have probably assumed. (more…)

New York — (press release) — ZF Linux Devices, Inc., today announced their family of products providing low cost, distributed network solutions for the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), education and developing economy markets. Each unit incorporates the ZF Linux Devices FailSafe MachZ PC-on-a-Chip in combination with a unique distributed Linux software implementation. (more…)

FirstLinux.com has launched FNN, FirstLinux Network News. This is a free service dedicated to breaking news, press releases, stories, and controversy regarding the Linux operating system. FNN is located at www.firstlinux.net/ (more…)

Electronique magazine, the premier French electronics journal, has named LynuxWorks Inc.'s BlueCat Linux as the “most significant development in embedded tools and software” as part of the magazine's “Electron d'Or” awards for the past year. The award is based on a poll of tools users. (more…)

Lowell, MA — (press release) — Mission Critical Linux, Inc. announced today that it has released the source code for its innovative, high-availability Kimberlite cluster technology to the Open Source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Using off-the-shelf commodity hardware running any Linux distribution, Kimberlite delivers exceptional high availability in enterprise computing… (more…)