Lindon, UTAH — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced the intent to acquire FirePlug Computers, Inc, based in Vancouver, Canada. FirePlug is a leading developer of embedded Linux network application software solutions and also provides strong development expertise in embedded Linux tools. (more…)

Tony Smith, of The Register, reports that RTOS vendor QNX Software Systems is about to unveil a major strategy shift — one that strongly indicates the enormous impact Linux and open-source software are having on the embedded software market . . . (more…)

On May 13th/14th the 2nd Braunschweig Linux-Days will take place, featuring some talks and company presentations of interest to the embedded systems community:

• LabVIEW (Christian Gindorf, National Instruments, Germany)
• Linux on Embedded Power PC boards (Wolfgang Denk / DENX Software Engineering, Germany)
• The Colibree Project — uCLinux on ColdFire (Gerrit Telkamp, Oliver Kamphenkel,… (more…)

Chicago, Comdex — Century Software unveiled HostML and ViewML, a set of XML-based host access and rendering technologies for embedded systems and devices. HostML is an Application Server that performs capture and translation of large and complex Unix and IBM application data to the XML format. (more…)

Adomo, Inc. announced today that it has successfully closed a seed funding round from Bridge Ventures Fund III in Denmark. This investment, along with prior investments, brings Adomo's total seed funding to $4 million. The funds will be used to continue development of a Linux server-based home information system that allows families to network Internet enabled devices and share important family… (more…)

Linux is a growing focus of exhibitors and presenters alike — and, no doubt, the attendees — at the upcoming Applied Computing Conference & Expo (formerly the PC Developers Conference) to be held May 22-25 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. The event is a combo tradeshow and technical conference devoted to what Intel calls the “applied computing” market. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Consortium needs a creative logo to represent our vision and mission. The logo will be used on letterhead and business cards, T-shirts, signs, packaging and more. We need a crisp, uncluttered design that looks terrific and distinctive on tiny web pages (for example, on Linux-powered wireless handheld PDAs) as well as huge booth banners. (more…)

VUNET.com's John Leyden reports that Lucent Technologies has started shipping first silicon of a faster and lower power version of their ARM10 “system-on-chip” CPU core, which supports Linux . . . (more…)

San Diego, CA — (company press release) — Synergy Microsystem, Inc., a leading manufacturer of PowerPC-based VME and CompactPCI CPU boards, announces that support for its boards is now included in Terra Soft Solutions' recently released Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.2. Users of Champion Server 1.2 will find the board support package for all of Synergy's PowerPC-based single board computers (SBCs)… (more…)

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is more often known as “Linux”, and many users are not aware of the extent of its connection with the GNU Project. (more…)

Philip Trauring writes, on the LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Forum . . .

“The Aplio Pro is an Internet telephony appliance that you can plug into an ethernet network and into a standard analog telephone and then allows you to make phone calls over the Internet to any other Aplio device or standard Internet telephony client (H.323). (more…)

MINIX author Andy Tanenbaum says “MINIX is much smaller than Linux and might well be suitable as the operating system for a watch, camera, or transistor radio.” MINIX source code has just been released under terms equivalent to the “BSD license”, according to a letter posted by Tanenbaum at Deja.com . . . (more…)

Sandy, UTAH — Linux NetworX Inc., a recently-formed provider of large-scale clustered computer solutions for Internet, industry and research fields, named Stephen Hill vice president of business development. As an attorney in Salt Lake City, Hill acted as one of the lead council for Utah-based Caldera Systems, Inc. (more…)

Michelle Head, editor at LinuxMall.com, writes about the bright future for Linux among what she calls “alternative computing devices” (ACDs) . . . (more…)