Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:25:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: Richard Stallman
To: [email protected]
Subject: Caution: Motif is still not free software (more…)

Linda Sadlouskos, of [email protected] Week, reports on Eazel, a Palo Alto, Calif. startup formed by some key Apple ex-employees with the objective of creating an improved GUI for Linux desktop users. Sadlouskos writes . . . (more…)

Adomo wants a place in your home. Not on top of your TV, or as a firewall or gateway hiding in a closet. What Adomo wants, is to fill your home with a network of low-cost, easy-to-use information appliances. All over the place. And they will all have Linux inside. (more…)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — LinkUp Systems Corporation today announced its L7205 system-on-chip solution. The highly integrated device, which is aimed at the fast-growing Internet and information appliance market, includes an ARM720T processor plus two UARTs, USB port, IrDA interface, codec, DSP, and dual LCD display controllers. (more…)

The second cvs milestone for Bayonne has been made available from ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/bayonne. This second release introduces support for Pika Analog DSP cards using a bayonne telephony plugin driver that interfaces with the Pika MonteCalro API under GNU/Linux. (more…)

In this opinion piece, Ganesh Prasad writes in great detail about a wide range of timely topics. You may, or may not, agree with his assessment of Java as the wave of the future — but he makes some truly stunning points about the disruptive effects of Open Source, Linux, and the web/Internet on the computing software/hardware establishment. (more…)

The coming Java-Linux duopoly

I'm not an expert on Linux devices. I'm not even an expert on Linux. I've used Unix and (lately Linux) as an applications developer, and my experience has primarily been with databases and application programming languages. However, I believe that my concurrent exposure to both Java and Linux has given me a few insights that may be worth sharing with those… (more…)

Ithaca, NY — (press release) — Traquair Data Systems, Inc. and Strategic Partner Hunt Engineering (UK) Ltd. are now supporting Linux on computers hosting their high performance HERON and TIM-40 multiple processor DSP boards. Traquair Data Systems claims that this is the most aggressive Linux support introduced from the DSP community to date. (more…)

Linux Weekly News has published an interesting article about a real-life consumer product that contains embedded Linux — the Axis 2100 network camera. That camera contains the Axis ETRAX system-on-chip IC, along with Axis' embedded Linux software (see references below). LWN editor Jonathan Corbet writes . . . (more…)

The Linux Business Expo (Canada) has announced a panel discussion on embedded Linux. The session, entitled “Why Embedded Linux”, will take place on Thursday, July 13. In that session Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks, Lynuxworks CEO Inder Singh, representatives from Red Hat and emWare, and moderator Al Gillen (IDC Research Manager) will discuss the future of embedded Linux systems and devices. (more…)

On June 28, 2000 The Open Group will launch the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum. Following, is an announcement from The Open Group about the new organization . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum reports on his observations at the recent Applied Computing conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Rick writes . . . (more…)

FREMONT, Calif. — (press release) — M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. announced today that DiskOnChip 2000 products are being upgraded to an advanced flash 0.21 micron process technology. Additionally, the internal flash file system technology, known as TrueFFS, is being upgraded to a new version (4.1 and 1.23 for DOS) in order to support the change and provide new features. (more…)

I just spent a couple of days at this year's Applied Computing Conference, held in San Jose, CA. New this year, were several presentations on embedded Linux (see below *). But beyond that not-so-surprising occurrence, there were two things — one very large, and one very small — that REALLY caught my attention . . . (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release) — TimeSys Corporation today announced an upgrade to the real-time features of TimeSys Linux/RT, a real-time version of the Linux Operating System. The additional features include: priority inheritance support within the kernel; TimeTrace support for detailed visualization of operating system internal events; and Rate-Monotonic Analysis-based (RMA) mathematical analysis… (more…)