Apex, NC — (press release excerpt) — EMJ Embedded Systems is pleased to announce the release of white dwarf linux, version 1.1. white dwarf linux version 1.1 upgrades the tiny distributon of Linux that developers are finding is ideal for Internet appliances, process control, medical equipment, industrial automation, wireless applications and testing equipment. It offers support for any motherboard or single board computer with IDE support and at least 8MB of RAM. It also supports both CD and network installs.

white dwarf linux contains more than 40 software packages, including a web browser, an Apache 1.3.x web server and email capability. In version 1.1, the installer has been moved to a modular kernel on the bootdisk, which makes for easier support for future platforms. It has also been rewritten to handle both CD and network installs. Network installs require 16MB of RAM; CD installs require as little as 8MB of RAM.

In addition, beta support for glibc has been added. glibc 2.1.x binaries can be used with white dwarf without having to recompile the older libc5 libraries. This allows easy copying of binaries from Slackware 7.x and Red Hat 6.x with no changes to white dwarf. Full support will be included in version 1.2.

white dwarf linux was initially developed for Adastra/JUMPtec single board computers. It works with the DIMM-PC 486, MOPSlcd4 and MOPS586, MOPS686+ and MOPSlcd6, and the CoolMONSTER boards. It has also been successfully tested with the Tri-M MZ104 board which is based on the ZF Micro Devices ZFx86 chip.

 
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