The newly formed Lineo Industrial Solutions Group today signaled its intention to guide the destiny of the real-time Linux market, by announcing a proposed common API for real-time Linux. The new API is supposed to provide developers the ability to use a common real-time API for development under both RTLinux and RTAI, the two most widely-used distributions of real-time Linux. (more…)

Vancouver, BC — (press release) — LinuxWizardry Systems has awarded a contract to Lineo, Inc., to manufacture LinuxWizardry's new Apprentice Router incorporating LinuxWizardry's proprietary configuration software known as the “Apprentice Command Center”. Under the terms of the Agreement, Lineo will manufacture the hardware for the first version of Apprentice Router for LinuxWizardry. (more…)

In the initial publication of “My Linux is smaller than your Linux”, there was an incorrect statement to the effect that uClinux does not provide multi-tasking capabilities due to lack of an MMU in the chips it supports. (That inaccuracy has now been corrected.) (more…)

Sometimes technologies converge to produce a whole that's decidedly greater than the sum of its parts. Bus-Tech's highly flexible Embedded Linux Controller achieves just such a synergy. The highly flexible network appliance device consists of a relatively simple PowerPC based single-board computer with four PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) expansion sockets, packaged in a 1U rackmount package, and powered by… (more…)

Richard Santalesa, of ZDNet Help & How-To, writes about the TiVo Personal TV Receiver, an innovative TV receiver appliance with embedded Linux inside. Santalesa writes . . . (more…)

Bellevue, Wash. — (press release) — Microstar Laboratories, Inc., a maker of Data Acquisition Processor boards, today announced a new Linux driver for PCI DAP boards. This support compliments an existing Linux driver for the company's ISA bus products.

Microstar Laboratories produces a line of Data Acquisition Processor (DAP) boards, each with an onboard processor. (more…)

AMD and Lineo have announced a strategic relationship to provide developers with Linux solutions for Internet appliances and embedded devices. Under the agreement, the two companies will coordinate embedded Linux solutions for AMD's entire line of embedded 32-bit processors, using Embedix Linux from Lineo. (more…)

Unlike many realms of human endeavor, when it comes to designing embedded systems, the goal is often to use as few resources as possible. In embedded systems, less is more, in many ways. Using less resources means less cost, less heat generation, more battery life, more reliability — and best of all, a more successful product. (more…)

David Sugar, Bayonne GNU maintainer, writes . . . In announcing the third milestone release of Bayonne, the telephony server of the GNU project, I believe it would be of benefit to more clearly define what Bayonne is. In the broadest possible sense, Bayonne is what could be called a “middleware” platform for developing telephony voice response services, though it is unlike any existing telephony… (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA -- (press release) — The Embedded Linux Consortium today announced that Ralf Doewich has won the organization's Logo Design Contest from a field of more than 50 competitors. The winning logo and several runner-ups may be viewed here. (more…)

Nancy C. Hanger writes, at LinuxOrbit.com, about plans by VTech to introduce an embedded Linux OS for its Helio PDA (info). VTech apparently has put together an aggressive strategy to support Helio with Linux-based PDA apps, including backwards compatibility with existing Helio apps and a “emulator” to allow… (more…)

ZDNet News editor John G. Spooner reports that Intel plans to introduce five new chips in its mobile Pentium family this month. Three are speed enhancements, while the other two are low-power versions targeted at the mini-notebook market. Spooner writes . . . (more…)

In this article, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum explores the age-old question, “How much RAM memory and disk space does an embedded system require to run Linux?” Along the way, Lehrbaum seeks the sage advice of Lineo CTO Tim Bird, MontaVista embedded Linux evangelist Bill Weinberg, and Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Imsys (Sweden) used the occasion of JavaOne 2000 in San Francisco to unveil an unusual new system-on-chip microprocessor that supports native on-chip Java bytecode execution — but also runs embedded Linux. The device, called the Cjip, achieves a high degree of on-chip functionality via an unusual approach: dynamically alterable microcode. (more…)

Murry Shohat (Interim ELC Executive Director) writes . . . “I am pleased to announce our new Board of Directors. Please join me in offering congratulations to the winners. More than 70% of you found time to vote. It was quite a race, with the lead changing hands several times and 2- and 3-way ties happening many times as new votes arrived. (more…)