Embedded Systems Conference; Chicago, IL — (company press release) — TimeSys Corporation, a leading provider of products and comprehensive solutions for building predictable real-time systems, today announced TimeSys Linux/RT, a new real-time version of the Linux operating system. (more…)

Peter Clarke writes in EE Times . . .

“A loose-knit organization called OpenCores is offering a free 32-bit processor intellectual-property (IP) core in a move that could undermine such commercial IP licensors as ARM and MIPS.” (more…)

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. today announced that PacketStream's Synchronous Packet Streaming (SPS) solution will run on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and BlueCat Linux operating system. (more…)

FREMONT, Calif.– PRNewswire — Insignia Solutions and Lineo, a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, jointly announced today an agreement for Lineo to distribute the Jeode platform in the Lineo Embedix SDK, a software developer kit for OEMs of embedded Linux solutions. (more…)

CHICAGO, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE — PRNewswire — Lineo Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, announced today that it joined the Extend the Internet (ETI) Alliance. Lineo Embedix, Lineo's line of embedded Linux-based software, adds the power, stability and connectivity of Linux to customized embedded devices. (more…)

LAUREL, Md., and SUNNYVALE, Calif. — PRNewswire — Computer I/O Corporation, a leading supplier of software that simplifies network access to live and real-time data streams, and MontaVista Software Inc., a provider of open source operating systems for embedded software, today announced a strategic relationship that will allow embedded application developers to easily create high performance Linux I/O… (more…)

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — MontaVista Software Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded computers, today unveiled the company's Linux Real-Time Characterization Project. (more…)

CHICAGO, IL. — PRNewswire — Computer I/O Corporation, a leading provider of software and services that simplify network access to live and real-time data streams, today announced the release of the Easy I/O Server, a Linux-based network I/O server. The Easy I/O Server is a flexible network I/O appliance that leverages the versatility of Linux and Computer I/O's new middleware technology to bring… (more…)

CHICAGO, IL. — (company press release) — I-Logix, Inc., a provider of enterprise solutions for embedded applications development, today unveiled its plans to launch a strategic initiative designed to drive the advancement of the Linux market and support the growing demand for Linux-based embedded applications. (more…)

Mike Corns, at Linux.com, writes . . .

“. . . if industrial-age companies used the current information-age manufacturing model, two competing companies producing, let's say, nuts & bolts (fasteners) would compete by using different threading standards rather than higher quality metals or machining precision.” (more…)

CEBIT 2000, HANNOVER, Germany — (PRNewswire) — SGI and SuSE Linux AG today announced the initiation of a joint engineering project to bring IRIS FailSafe, SGI's high-availability clustering software, to the Linux operating system. The two companies announced their plans to develop a version of IRIS FailSafe for high-availability applications in Linux environments. (more…)

Justin Pearse writes, at ZDNet UK . . .

Samsung's Yopy offers a browser, MP3 player, and Compact Flash all in one little box. (more…)

Justin Pearse writes, at ZDNet UK . . .

“On Thursday at CeBIT, the Symbian consortium dismissed as hype Transmeta's claim that MobileLinux would establish itself as the dominant platform for the mobile Internet.” (more…)

Rick Lehrbaum, of LinuxDevices.com writes . . .

“A suggested vision for the organization is that of an Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) that is 'a nonprofit, vendor-neutral trade association whose goal is the advancement and promotion of embedded Linux throughout the embedded, applied, and appliance, and applied computing markets'. (more…)

HANNOVER, Germany — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Ericsson Mobile Communications and Opera Software A/S today signed an agreement for the user of the Opera for Linux Internet technology to enable World Wide Web Browsing on the Ericsson Cordless Screen Phone HS210. The Ericsson Screen Phone is a complete communication center, a combination of cordless telephony, and Internet access — a phone answering machine,… (more…)