Jim Ready, founder and CEO of MontaVista Software, is renowned as a pioneer in the real-time and embedded operating systems market. He co-founded Ready Systems in 1980, the company that developed VRTX, the embedded computer industry's first popular commercial real-time kernel. In this interview, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum asks Jim about his views on the embedded Linux market in general and… (more…)

Red Hat has published Draft Version 1.1 of EL/IX, a proposed embedded Linux API. The draft spec is currently available for download and comment (PDF file). (more…)

LinuxLinks.com has now reached just over 9,000 verified LinuxLinks. This represents a huge increase in the number of new links entered into database per month and further demonstrates the continuing expansion of quality websites on the net covering Linux. (more…)

LinuxPR reports . . .

Matt Henderson has written a HiSax US ISDN Driver for Linux that allows the use of low cost passive ISDN cards. (more…)

Linux Weekly News writes . . .

“Real-time Linux is patented. Some RTLinux users have been surprised that the RTLinux concept is subject to patent number 5995745, held by veteran RTLinux hacker Victor Yodaiken. This patent was issued on November 30, 1999, and covers:

• providing a real time operating system for running real time tasks and components and non-real time tasks;
• providing a… (more…)

John Spooner, ZDNet News, writes . . .

“The mobile Pentium III's days are numbered. Intel Corp. sources say the chip maker is working to replace its top-of-the-line notebook processor, the mobile Pentium III, with a new chip, code-named Northwood, in 2001. Northwood, based on the same next-generation 32-bit architecture as Intel's forthcoming Willamette desktop chip, will mark the beginning of… (more…)

NEW YORK, NY — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, and Everybook Inc., the developer of the world's first true electronic book, announced today the agreement to provide the Lineo Embedix Linux operating system and Embedix Browser for use in the EB Dedicated Reader. (more…)

Draft Version 1.1 of EL/IX, a proposed embedded Linux API, is currently available for download and comment (PDF file). EL/IX is an embedded application programming interface (API) that makes it possible to use desktop Linux systems for application development and then easily recompile and deploy those applications across the complete spectrum of… (more…)

Framingham, Mass. — (company press release) Bolstered by the almost-daily announcement of new products, technologies, and vendors, the marketplace for information appliances is rapidly taking off, according to new research from IDC. As an ever-broader group of vendors attempt to address the “Post PC Era,” the worldwide market for information appliances will exceed 89 million units, or $17.8 billion, in… (more…)

Craig Matsumoto and Junko Yoshida write in EE Times . . .

“Catching the scent of a vast new market with lots of elbow room for multiple players, software companies are getting serious about the Internet appliance. Boasting design wins from the likes of Compaq, Intel and Hitachi, Be Inc. (more…)

Jim Ready, founder and CEO of MontaVista Software, is renowned as a pioneer in the real-time and embedded operating systems market. He co-founded Ready Systems in 1980, the company that developed VRTX, the embedded computer industry's first popular commercial real-time kernel. In this interview, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum asks Jim about his views on the embedded Linux market in general and… (more…)

IBM today announced that it is the first and only company to offer speech recognition tools and technologies to the Linux operating environment. Available today, IBM ViaVoice Software Developers Kit (SDK) and Run Time Kits for Linux are the first in a series of planned Linux solutions from IBM that will make it easier for developers to incorporate speech recognition technology into their next generation of… (more…)

FREMONT, Calif. — (company press release) — To capitalize on the emerging market for embedded Linux, Insignia Solutions and MontaVista Software Inc. have reached an agreement for MontaVista to distribute the Jeode platform to its embedded Linux customers. MontaVista is the developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications. (more…)

Jeff Alami, in a three-part review of the New York LinuxWorld Conference and Expo published by Linux.com, writes . . . (more…)

A story released today by CMP's TechWeb says . . .

“The U.S. market for Internet appliances is entering a period of rapid takeoff, and the new devices are expected to surpass consumer PC shipments in 2002, a leading technology market research firm said on Monday.” (more…)