Lund, Sweden, April 24, 2000 — Axis Communications announced today the first open source code for the Journaled Flash File System (JFFS), which allows Linux devices to store information on Flash-ROM's. This production quality filesystem, developed by Axis, is ideally suited for designing embedded systems without hard drives, such as emerging network and mobile devices, because it provides crash-safe… (more…)

Boulder, CO — (press release) — Rogue Wave Software has announced the release of its comprehensive collection of C++ components for Linux. The C++ Toolkit for Linux enables developers to easily create applications on the Linux platform. (more…)

Murray Hill, NJ — (press release) — Bell Labs announced today that it is releasing free Linux software that foils the most common form of computer security attack. Lucent's Libsafe software prevents electronic intruders from overflowing an application program's buffer memory to gain unauthorized access to a computer. (more…)

Byte.com has published a well written and highly informative article, by Moshe Bar, about the technologies and implementation methods for setting up and using Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks (RAID) under Linux. The article focuses on how to implement a RAID system using SCSI hard disks. (more…)

New to Linux? Wondering which Linux distribution is right for you? Linux Magazine has just posted an online article, by William Wong, that compares eight popular “standard” (desktop/server) Linux distributions. The distributions covered are: Caldera, Corel, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and TurboLinux. (more…)

San Ramon, CA — /PRNewswire/ — The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) today announced that its membership grew by 45 percent in the first quarter of 2000, with 19 companies joining the organization. OSGi is now comprised of 58 leading technology companies working to define and promote open standards for the delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices. (more…)

This series of articles in Linux Journal explains, in an easy to follow, step-by-step manner, several ways to create Linux based systems that fit on one or two floppy diskettes. In Part 1, Marcel Gagné starts out with LOAF (Linux On A Floppy — loaf.ecks.org), a small Linux implementation that fits — as its name implies — on a single floppy. (more…)

San Francisco, CA — ZDNet, which operates the leading Web destination for people who want to buy, use and learn about technology, today announced that it has acquired LinuxDevices.com, “the Embedded Linux Portal.” Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. (more…)

EE Times.com editor Sunray Liu reports that Motorola and TurboLinux are collaborating on an embedded Linux implementation for supporting the Motorola PowerPC 8240 microprocessor . . . (more…)

[NOTE: At the Linux Terminal Server Project website, you can find out how to create a Linux based diskless workstation that boots from a network server. Applications include both thin clients and embedded systems. (more…)

QNX Software Systems (Ottawa, ONTARIO) has unveiled an aggressive strategy to adapt to the growing presence of Linux in the embedded market. The QNX strategy lies not in working against Linux, but rather in hitching the company's fortunes to the Linux train — in a manner of speaking. (more…)

Herndon, Virginia — (press release) — The Real Time Application Interface (RTAI) development team led by Paolo Mantegazza of Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale Politecnico di Milano (DIAPM), today announced the release of RTAI, version 1.3. In the open source spirit, this new version provides enhanced capabilities and services which simultaneously extend the ability of RTAI to meet the needs of… (more…)

Lindon, Utah — (press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, and Cosource.com, the cooperative market for open source, today announced the successful completion of their first joint open source project. Lineo utilized Cosource.com's reverse-auction market to select a Linux developer to integrate the htDig search engine with Kdevelop, a leading open source… (more…)

Stockholm, SWEDEN — PileofPCs.org was launched today, with the objective of hastening the proliferation of cluster-based supercomputing (i.e. Beowulf class computers) — by creating, promoting and sponsoring the Open Source development of distributions, applications, and tools comparable to those sold by traditional supercomputer vendors. (more…)

Lindon, UTAH — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced an agreement to acquire INUP, a leading provider of fault tolerant Linux-based clustering solutions for embedded devices. INUP technology targets high availability CompactPCI (cPCI) and Linux-based clusters that need hot-swapping functionality and redundancy. (more…)