Integrated Software & Devices Corporation (ISDCorp) and LinkUp Systems have announced a port of ISDCorp's Royal Linux embedded Linux distribution to LinkUp's L7200 ARM-based system-on-chip processor family. ISDCorp will also provide customized system integration services, software drivers, and Linux support to LinkUp's OEM customers. (more…)

Mountain View, CA — (press release) — MontaVista Software, Inc. is sponsoring a pair of free full-day seminars aimed at educating attendees on the use of Linux in a variety of embedded-control designs. The seminar series, titled “Linux Inside,” debuts in the Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Marriott hotel on May 31 and in La Jolla, California, on June 5, at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla. (more…)

AMIRIX Systems Inc. (Halifax, NS) has announced the Embedded Linux Strategic Alliance (ELSA), an initiative aimed at forging partnerships with manufacturers of embedded single board computers (SBCs) and other embedded system suppliers. The ELSA program is meant to provide SBC suppliers with a fast and inexpensive way to support customers who are developing applications based on embedded Linux using their… (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release) — Embedded Linux supplier Lineo, Inc. announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering by the Company of its Common Stock. (more…)

Somers, N.Y. — (press release) — IBM today announced Linux software and services for the S/390 enterprise server. The announcement is the latest initiative in IBM's strategy to infuse Linux throughout its portfolio of e-business servers and services, bringing the benefits of Linux and new applications to the industry's most reliable server. (more…)

Netanya ISRAEL — (press release) — Jungo Ltd. has released the beta version of a unique product which enables remote access to PCI/CompactPCI/USB/PCMCIA/ISA/ISA-PnP based hardware, through any network connection. The new technology is integrated into Jungo's “WinDriver” device driver development kit. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release) — TimeSys Corporation today announced the immediate availability of its TimeSys Linux/RT 1.0, a real-time version of Linux. TimeSys Linux/RT is an open-source solution that extends the Linux kernel to provide predictable real-time response entirely from the Linux OS. (more…)

Cosource.com has published an interview with Lineo CTO Tim Bird about his assessment of a recent open source development project that was co-funded by Lineo. The project utilized Cosource's cooperative system for open source code development, and resulted in an enhancement to Kdevelop. (more…)

Will Knight, of ZDNet UK, reports Transmeta will shortly announce some major design wins for its Crusoe family of processors in “power-saving laptops and Internet devices”. Knight writes . . . (more…)

A new startup, DevelopOnline.com, claims to be the first Intel “incubated spin-off.” The Tempe, AZ startup announced today that it has received first round funding of $15M to develop a unique new website that will serve as a “product development accelerator.” Jim Kearns, VP of Business Development, says his company's web-based service is going to “significantly compress product development cycle time, by… (more…)

Toronto, ON. — Tabo Software Inc. has today introduced an embedded Linux based Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) module that is compatible with the low cost and highly popular DL305 Koyo/Ge Fanuc Series 1 PLC base. (more…)

Menlo Park, CA — (press release) — The Open Group announced today that it is releasing the source code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community. (more…)

Dr. C. Douglass Locke, TimeSys vice president of technology, has joined the LinuxDevices.com “Ask the Experts” forum. Dr. Locke received his Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Computer Science, with a dissertation on real-time scheduling. Since then, he has logged more than 33 years in the specification, architecture, design, and implementation of applications in space (both ground based and… (more…)

Axis Communications has created a network/Internet appliance that generates local “cells” which extend the range of Bluetooth signals for access by client devices like PDAs, laptops, Webpads, and specialized embedded devices. The company demonstrated the product, dubbed the Bluetooth Access Point, at Networld-Interop in Las Vegas last week. (more…)

Test & Measurement World Online has published the first article of a two-part series on how to design data acquisition device drivers under Linux. The articles are written by Alex Ivchenko, of United Electronic Industries. Ivchenko writes . . . (more…)