SEOUL, KOREA — OSK, Inc. in collaboration with HanmeSoft Co. introduced WindStone, a Linux-based Operating System for embedded devices, which provides binary compatibility with PalmOS, the industry leader in Palm Computing from 3Com. Based on the highly efficient and stable Linux kernel, WindStone is optimized for embedded devices. (more…)

Lineo has published a new version of BusyBox, with several important enhancements and bugfixes. Bruce Perens is the original author of BusyBox, which is kind of a “swiss army knife” utility, providing many basic Linux utilities in a single small executable. BusyBox is used on the Debian install floppies, by the Linux Router Project, and in Lineo's Embedix distribution of embedded linux. (more…)

Zentropic Computing, LLC (Zentropix) today announced a major milestone, the availability of their latest RealTime Linux installation CD for Linux 2.2. This open source CD features a validated and tested installation of RealTime Linux, real-time Linux specific documentation, sample applications and test code, as well as Zentropix non-intrusive and step and trace debuggers for RealTime Linux. (more…)

Maxspeed Corporation and LinuxOne, Inc., Mountain View, CA, today announced a joint development project for the first wireless thin-client using Bluetooth communications technology. Bluetooth is an emerging but broadly-supported global industry standard for wireless LAN connectivity. (more…)

Axis Communications (Chelmsford, MA), a leader in network peripherals and networking technologies, today unveiled the AXIS 2100 Network Camera, a low cost, network-attached camera, the first ever based on the Linux operating system. A self-contained network camera with its own IP address, the devide transmits live high quality JPEG images at up to 10 frames per second and stores crisp digital images. (more…)

Herndon, VA — Zentropic Computing, LLC (Zentropix) today announced the availability of their Remote Kernel Module Step and Trace stub for GDB and the Remote Run-time Data Debugger (R2D2), as open source developments under the Gnu Public License. These tools for real-time Linux development have, until now, been missing from the Linux developer's arsenal. (more…)

KYZO has announced the release of the commercial version of its popular PizzaBox Linux completely pre-installed in a tiny, bootable CompactFlash card. It's called the PizzaBox Linux distribution because a prototype server was built in a Pizza Hut Takeout box. Now, KYZO ships every copy of the commercial version of PizzaBox Linux in — you guessed it — a pizza box!

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Most Linux systems run on PC platforms. However, Linux can also be a reliable workhorse for embedded systems. This excellent article by Joel Williams provides a thorough overview of what is involved in using Linux in an embedded system application. (more…)

Fall COMDEX '99 — Moreton Bay announced the release of its NETtel 2520 and NETtel 2500 VPN Linux based Internet routers. These small, easy to connect intelligent router solutions are engineered to offer a simple, secure, and affordable extranet-friendly Virtual Private Network (VPN) for flat networks. (more…)

This technical paper — on building low cost embedded network appliances — presents Linux as the new standard for embedding in internet appliances and internet devices. As we look to the future, we see intelligent devices all communicating, interconnecting, and being controlled through the Internet — and we see Linux becoming the standard operating system that runs on these embedded processors. (more…)

If you are a researcher, kernel developer, application developer, or just interested in real-time (aka realtime, aka real time) Linux, this workshop in at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, AUSTRIA is for you! (more…)

An interesting and thorough backgrounder/tutorial about the benefits of using Linux in embedded computing applications is now available in the LinuxDevices.com “articles” area. (more…)

An article by Dave Bennett describes one way to run Linux in an embedded system with no hard disk. The approach was developed as part of an Operator Interface display subsystem developed by Boeing Flight Test. The airborne environment's requirements for rugged, robust operation dictated building the operator interface without a hard disk. (more…)

Linux Hits Prime Time

The Linux operating system has received a lot of Press lately as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. However, it has also found a place in the network applications, acting as an office router, Internet firewall or as web and mail servers. Several Internet service providers have built their business on Linux by using it as their service engines. (more…)

“A notice to high tech fans staking out front row seats for the impending Microsoft-Linux showdown: There has been a sudden change of venue. The PC desktop, site of memorable software clashes past, has been deemed too old and rickety to withstand the stresses of another decade. Instead, both camps have settled on a newer, more neutral battleground: embedded systems, centerpiece of the ultra-modern… (more…)