NEW YORK, Feb. 1 — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Zentropix, a leading provider of real-time Linux solutions. By adding the real-time expertise of Zentropix to the Embedix product line, Lineo now offers a solid real-time Linux solution to OEMs, extending the capabilities of the… (more…)

New York, NY — (company press release) — Embedded Planet today announced the availability of an embedded Linux development platform. The software development platform called Linux Planet integrates the company's RPX hardware and firmware with Hard Hat Linux from MontaVista. It dramatically shortens the time required to build embedded devices and makes it easier than ever to do so with standard hardware… (more…)

Neoware Systems, Inc. will demonstrate a new, embedded version of the Linux operating system at LinuxWorld Expo in New York. This new operating system is designed for Information Appliances — small devices that typically do not have hard disk drives or significant memory. (more…)

Paula Rooney writes, in Computer Reseller News . . .

“When Linus Torvalds takes center stage at LinuxWorld on February 2, he will no longer wear the hat of the impartial shepherd of the Linux operating system, but that of the creator of a new Linux distribution, Mobile Linux. (more…)

NEW YORK — (company press release) — MontaVista Software Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, today announces its plans to offer an array of real-time performance options for the company's embedded Linux distribution. To address the range of requirements for real-time responsiveness and determinism, MontaVista will enhance the already good performance of the… (more…)

NEW YORK — (company press release) — Monta Vista Software Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, demonstrates the ability of its embedded Linux distribution to handle the real-world mix of vendors and microprocessor architectures present in telecommunications and data communications applications. (more…)

Linux vs. Windows. It's a battle fought on many fronts. While a worldwide legion of Linux developers has successfully mounted a frontal attack on Microsoft's WinNT in the servers, routers, firewalls, and telecommunications markets, the open-source community has quietly set its sites on another of Microsoft's three OSes: WinCE — the Windows operating system for handheld and embedded devices. (more…)

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — (company press release) — IndyBox Systems, the leading manufacturer of Linux computers, announces its entrance into the embedded devices market. Applying its Linux talents to the production of embedded devices, IndyBox now manufacturers cheap, reliable embedded devices for systems such as IndyBox's Changeable Sign Display, and for systems by third party vendors such as microwaves,… (more…)

Embedded Linux is a hot discussion topic, today, at Slashdot. Check out the discussion * here *. After an initial storm of ZDNet trashing, resulting from their story on embedded Linux (* read it here *), you'll find some interesting observations and comments about… (more…)

Robert Lemos, writing in ZDNet News, says . . .

“Linux, the freely distributed operating system whose Cinderella story has riveted the market for Web servers, is ready to wear its glass slippers once again. The fairy-tale ball this time is the very posh information appliance market.” (more…)

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — (company press release) — Red Hat, Inc., a leader in Linux and open source solutions, announced today its official entry into the post-PC market to meet increasing demand for Red Hat's open source-based services and support. As its first open source offering in the embedded space, Red Hat is introducing the Red Hat Tools for Embedded Developers, an open source integrated… (more…)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, of ZDNet News, writes . . .

“Hot on the heels of the unveilings of Transmeta Corp.'s Mobile Linux and Lineo Inc.'s Embedix, Red Hat Inc. is joining the embedded-system fray with its Red Hat Tools for Embedded Developers (RHTED). RHTED is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for software developers. (more…)

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — (company press release) — MontaVista Software Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, today announces the version 1.0 release of the company's Hard Hat Linux distribution. (more…)

SAN DIEGO, CA — (company press release) — FSMLabs and Synergy Microsystems today announced the beta release of RTLinux for the PowerPC. Designed to run on VME and CompactPCI CPU boards as well as other PowerPC platforms, RTLinux is a real-time, deterministic Linux kernel. Real-time response seen with the beta release is impressive, with latencies of 10 microseconds and under expected. (more…)

Rick Lehrbaum writes . . .

Here are the final details of the organizational meeting of the Embedded Linux Consortium to be held at the Embedded Systems Conference in Chicago . . . (more…)