John G. Spooner of ZDNet News reports that Transmeta plans to release its version of Linux for Internet appliances and other devices as early as next week so that developers can begin testing it. Spooner writes . . .

The chipmaker is preparing to post Mobile Linux, its take on the Linux OS, under the GNU General Public License (GPL) process in the near future, company representatives said this week. Although the exact release date isn't set, the release could come next week or the week after.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, works as a programmer at Transmeta. The once-secretive company, located in Santa Clara, Calif., has intended all along to release Mobile Linux to the open-source community. In fact, it's required under the GPL license to release improvements to the open-source community . . .

“We want to put it out there in a way that's useful to people. We're going to be putting it out on our Web site, and we're going to try to put it up in a way that people can download it and use it and send us feedback,” said Dan Quinlan, a programmer with Transmeta . . .

As far as features go, Transmeta has worked to reduce the amount of memory required to run the OS. Unlike PCs, which come with fairly large amounts of memory and storage, devices must economize. “We've done a lot of work on bringing the size down and being efficient about memory,” Quinlan said.

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