Fort Lauderdale, FL — (press release excerpt) — Metro Link announced today a licensing agreement with Lineo, Inc. under which Lineo will provide their customers with Metro Link's new Micro-X Complete! Software Development Kit (SDK) for Lineo's Embedix SDK embedded Linux based development tool chain. Lineo and Metro Link will work together to provide the Micro-X SDK as a seamless add-on technology to an Embedix SDK solution.

Micro-X Complete! SDK is a combination of Metro-X, mission-critical X server, and Micro-X, standards-based embedded X server. The SDK contains Metro Link's new “MicroScope” utility that runs with Metro-X on a developer's host computer to analyze application requirements for a Micro-X graphics implementation on the target system, utilizing the same X Window System. Developers will be able to use Micro-X's small footprint to perform 2D/3D graphics, video-in-a-window and MPEG playback running Embedix on their set-top box, web pad, residential gateway, or other next generation Internet appliance. Developers will have the option of selecting from multiple Micro-X implementations or work with Metro Link to build a custom configured, reduced footprint X server, which includes five custom builds.

Based on the embedded application's requirements, Micro-X is custom configured to the smallest size possible when implemented. This results in the smallest possible memory footprint for the application, ready for deployment to the developer's target system running x86 or PowerPC.

 
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