San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced the submission of its Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Library Optimizer Tool to the open source community. MontaVista is releasing its Library Optimizer Tool code as a project on SourceForge with two goals in mind — to encourage wide adoption of the base software and to promote the expansion of tools for embedded… Linux development.

MontaVista¹s Library Optimizer Tool (LOT) parses and inventories the program libraries and symbols required by a particular project and prunes unneeded library code and symbols, yielding smaller, more efficient deployment
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“By placing this technology into open source, we invite our open software peers to join forces with us to improve both the number and the quality of tools for embedded Linux development,” said Mark Orvek, director of research and development, MontaVista Software. “Opening this project on SourceForge is a call to action for embedded Linux toolmakers to bring improved technology rapidly into the marketplace.”

In keeping with MontaVista and open source practices, all pertinent MontaVista work is being submitted back to the relevant source trees, promoting the LOT architecture and specification for the entire community.

The Library Optimizer Tool operates on a wide array of development platforms, including Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Suse, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Solaris, under VMWare on Windows, and natively on MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux for x86.

Interested parties can examine and download the Library Optimization Tool project code from the SourceForge LOT project website after Sept 15, 2001. The Library Optimizer Tool is also available directly from MontaVista to subscribers of the MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition.

 
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