Sunnyvale, Calif. — AMD introduced the PCnet-PRO (Am79C976) Fast Ethernet controller, a high-performance 10/100 Mbps PCI bus Ethernet controller with support for oversize packets. The device boasts enhanced packet processing capabilities, for reduced system resource overhead and improved performance in throughput intensive applications like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and streaming video. (more…)

Sam Williams, writing at UpsideToday, provides an interesting and insightful perspective on Lineo's business strategies, as well as on other recent news in the embedded Linux market. Williams writes . . . (more…)

Santa Clara, Calif. — (press release) — The Linux Standard Base (LSB) and Linux Internationalization Initiative (LI18NUX) announced today that they have incorporated under the name Free Standards Group. The newly formed Free Standards Group was organized to accelerate the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the application, development and promotion of interoperability standards for… (more…)

Six months ago, Lynx Real-Time Systems — well known for its LynxOS proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS) — unveiled a courageous strategy to embrace Linux, rather than face it in armed combat on the embedded battlefield (see: Lynx+Linux — a Dual OS Strategy). (more…)

Lindon, UTAH — Lineo Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced “Lineo Partner Connect”, a partnership program that tests and certifies third-party software applications on Lineo's Embedix embedded Linux products. (more…)

Will Knight, of ZDNet UK, reports that a growing number of companies are recognizing that a big potential benefit of Linux is that it it's inherent resistance, architecturally, to the viruses that commonly attack Microsoft Windows based systems. Reduced susceptability to viruses would obviously be desirable for users of PCs in homes and offices. (more…)

Charles Babcock of [email protected] week offers a perspective on MontaVista's newly released open-source real-time scheduler for Linux embedded systems . . . (more…)

Sunnyvale, Calif — MontaVista Software has unveiled a new real-time scheduler add-on for the Linux kernel. The real-time scheduler is meant to allow embedded applications to meet real-time performance requirements while preserving the standard Linux programming model and Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs). (more…)

An article at IT-Analysis.com reports that a recent study of the Internet Appliance marketplace by Cahners In-Stat group predicts that the number of shipments of Internet Appliances will grow by more than 1500% between now and the end of 2004. That translates into some 37 million devices shipping in 2004. (more…)

LinuxMall.com is launching a new “Ask Linus” online forum. Via the forum, Linux community members can get answers from Linux founder Linus Torvalds about hot Linux trends and other Linux issues. Visitors can submit questions to Torvalds along with browsing an archive of questions and answers to date. (more…)

Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet News reports on the status of the next official Linux kernel release (v2.4), now expected to arrive this Fall. Foley writes . . . (more…)

Red Herring's Tom Davey reports on remarks by IBM technology and strategy vice president, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, at the Venture 2000 conference held recently in Squaw Valley, California. Wladawsky-Berger's comments apparently reflect a growing sense within IBM that Linux is destined for wide scale adoption in a broad variety of embedded devices and appliances. (more…)

Although Linux on the desktop still faces the challenge of overcoming the timidity of end users, the internals of a handheld device tend to be completely hidden. In a marketplace where Handspring produced a lower-cost device and immediately began outselling Palm, it's only a matter of time before a large manufacturer goes with the lower cost — and higher reliability — of Linux. (more…)

AMIRIX Systems (Halifax, Nova Scotia) has launched “the Embedded Debian Project” — an effort to create a completely open, multi-vendor embedded Linux software resource based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The project has its own website at www.emdebian.org. (more…)

EndRun Technologies, a Santa Rosa, Calif. startup, says they have lowered the cost of delivering precision time to networks and embedded systems. The company's Præcis family of time and frequency products accomplishes this by extracting time information that is accurate to within 10 microseconds from signals transmitted by CDMA cellular wireless network base stations. (more…)