Steve Emms of FirstLinux.com sent us this announcement about a new series of articles intended to help ease the transition of newcomers to Linux . . . (more…)

The NY Times reports today that Gateway and America Online have collaborated on a home Internet appliance that is built around a Transmeta Crusoe processor and an embedded Linux operating system. The device, which is likely to be priced at under $500, is expected to hit the market later this year. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — Integrated Software & Devices Corporation (ISDCorp) announced a strategic agreement with ARM through which ISDCorp will provide Royal Linux for ARM partners. The agreement follow ISDCorp's successful port of the Linux kernel 2.2 to the ARM7 processor. (more…)

Teknor Applicom Inc. has introduced a multiprocessing peripheral processor designed for mission critical datacom and telecom applications such as voice over IP (VoIP). The Teknor Pentium III based cPCI-MXP64 is CompactPCI (CPCI) bus and form-factor compliant, and meets the CPCI hot swap spec. (more…)

Netanya, ISRAEL — (press release) — Jungo Ltd. has announced GO Hot-Swap, a unique OS extension technology that enables fast and simplified development of hot swap support for systems utilizing CompactPCI compliant hardware. GO Hot-Swap supports Linux and several other OSes. (more…)

Jon Udell, writing at Byte.com, looks at some of the possible advantages of using QNX, the real-time multi-tasking POSIX OS that recently took on a “Linux-like” market stance. Udell writes . . . (more…)

Teknor Applicom Inc. has announced a new Pentium III based single-board computer in a PICMG-compliant form-factor. The PCI-948 has dual Ethernet interfaces and aimed at OEM datacom and telecom applications. Teknor supports the PCI-948 under Linux as well as several other operating systems. (more…)

Roger Howorth of IT Week reports that Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) demoed its prototype speech recognition engine for handheld devices at the Internet Show in London last week. The technology is based on a StrongARM CPU and Linux. Howorth writes . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum recently interviewed Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, with a focus on three embedded Linux topics: (1) Red Hat's current intentions for eCos, an open source embedded OS that Red Hat inherited through its acquisition of Cygnus (Tiemann's former company); (2) the status of EL/IX, a Red Hat proposal for an embedded Linux version of the POSIX API (also produced by Cygnus);… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum recently interviewed Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, with a focus on three embedded Linux topics: (1) Red Hat's current intentions for eCos, an open source embedded OS that Red Hat inherited through its acquisition of Cygnus (Tiemann's former company); (2) the status of EL/IX, a Red Hat proposal for an embedded Linux version of the POSIX API (also produced by Cygnus);… (more…)

Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. The first cvs milestone for Bayonne has been made available for immediate download. Bayonne, which is based on the ACS project, offers a multi-line interactive voice response telephony server which may be scripted and directly extended thru modular plugins. (more…)

Accelent Systems has announced plans to make the board design of the company's new full-featured SA-1110/1111 Development Platform available for free download. The board includes an extensive set of system functions and is based on Intel's 200 MHz StrongARM SA-1110 processor. Accelent Systems designed the board to serve as a reference for customers developing a broad range of embedded products and… (more…)

Laurel, MD — (press release) — Computer I/O Corporation, a provider of communications servers, embedded software, and services, has announced the Easy I/O T1/E1 Streaming Server, a Linux-based high performance communications server specifically designed for data insertion, capture and analysis applications. (more…)

Bellevue, WA — (press release) — GoAhead Software announced the release of GoAhead WebServer 2.1, the latest version of GoAhead's available-source, royalty free, standards-based embedded webserver software. WebServer 2.1 supports embedded Linux applications. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release) — MontaVista Software, Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, today announced the appointment Gregory Haerr as the company's Chief Strategist, GUI Technologies. As the leader of the open source Microwindows Project, Haerr brings tremendous expertise in development and deployment of scalable GUIs and graphical APIs for mobile and… (more…)