Features

• Real Time and Linux, by Kevin Dankwardt — What is real time? This article, first of a three-part series, introduces the benchmarks we'll run on real-time Linux version in the next two issues.

• The Linux4.TV Set-Top Box Open Source Project, by Gregory Haerr — Here are the details on the new Linux4.TV development kit we're giving away in our development contest. Find out about MPEG playback, video capture, HTML-based interface and more.

  

• Linux and Telematics: Building a Passenger Heatstroke Warning, by David Beckemeyer — A vehicle-based embedded Linux system with nationwide wireless networking and GPS is a big task, right? Make it approachable by starting with the Earthlink SPARK system.

Indepth

• Using GTK+/X as an Embedded GUI, by Chuck Groom — Create graphics that span widgets, space-saving text fields and more by customizing the freely available GTK+ toolkit.

• Qt Palmtop, by Kai Henning Simensen — This complete palmtop suite offers handwriting recognition, a claendar, an address book and everything you need in a PDA.

• HTTP in 44k with libhttp, by Alan DuBoff — Web browsers aren't the only clients that need to talk HTTP. Get information from web servers and even load completes software updates with this tiny, easy-o-use HTTP client library.

• A Conversation with Alfredo Delgado of Inalambrica.net, by Phil Hughes — Inlambrica is rolling out a network management platform with a difference–the package manager is a PostgreSQL database. ELJ's Phil Hughes asks Alfredo Delgado about Linux, databases and business.

• Highly Available Networking, by John Mehaffey — Achieve five nines reliability with the bonding network driver and the high availability dæmon.

• System Development Jump Start Class, by Don Marti — Embedded development instructor Ed Skinner offers philosophy and practical advice in an introductory developer class.

• Embedded PCI and Linux, by Steven Slupsky — How can you get the cost advantages of PCI and the ruggedness of an industrial platform in one form factor? Use inexpensive DIMM connectors and everyone's favorite OS.

Contests

• Contest Frenzy!, by Don Marti — If it's still an “idiot box” after this contest, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

Letters

• Letters, by Various — Readers bite back.

New Products

• New Products, by Heather Mead — BlueCat 4.0 and RT, VT 900 Set-Top Box, DeviceGate-E gateway, Zaurus SL-5000D

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