LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter -- August 10, 2000
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the LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter
August 10, 2000
by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor, ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com
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Fact sheet (& photos): IBM Linux wrist watch prototype -- IBM Research announced that the company has extended the reach of Linux to a device small enough to fit on your wrist. The Linux-based wrist watch prototype is intended to showcase IBM's commitment to Linux -- making Linux scaleable in both directions -- and also to assert IBM's leadership in the open source and open standards movements.
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An interview with IBM's Linux Wrist Watch project leader -- Rick Lehrbaum spoke with Alex Morrow, "IBM Fellow" at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and project leader of the IBM Linux Wrist Watch project, to learn about the project's overall mission and goals, and also to gather technical specifics about the device itself, from a hardware, software, and systems design perspective.
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CompactPCI VoIP board supports Linux hot-swap -- AudioCodes has introduced full hot-swap capabilities for its model TP-400 CompactPCI VoIP communication processor under Linux and several other operating systems.
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Running Linux on low cost, low power, MMU-less processors -- this whitepaper briefly describes some of the technical issues associated with small foot-print MMU-less embedded devices under uClinux.
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Lineo establishes Lineo Japan, Inc. -- Lineo announced the establishment of Lineo Japan, Inc.
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Ericsson and Red Hat collaborate on home communications -- Ericsson and Red Hat have unveiled a strategic initiative to develop a broad range of technologies, products, and services for home communications. The first tangible results of the partnership will emerge when the Ericsson Cordless Screen Phone (previewed at CeBIT, last February) begins shipping towards year end.
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What GUI is in Ericsson's cordless screen phone? -- notably absent from Ericsson's announcement about the new HS210 cordless screen phone, is been any mention of its embedded GUI software. Is it an as yet unannounced Red Hat embedded GUI? SuSE's Tiny-X? Microwindows?
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Vers 0.88 Nano-X and Microwindows are released -- the latest version of this small footprint open source embedded GUI and window manager software is now available for ftp download.
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How will you learn to develop with Linux? -- LinuxDevices.com has initiated the latest in its Embedded Linux Polls series. The poll will assist Embedded Linux product, service, and training providers in understanding the needs of developers who use Linux in their embedded system projects.
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New text-to-speech support for Linux is FAAST -- Fonix has announced a text-to-speech (TTS) software development kit for Linux x86. The software provides high quality unlimited vocabulary TTS, as well a unique customized vocabulary TTS.
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Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum is launched -- the Open Group announced the launch of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum. The group aims to bring together RTOS vendors and customers, to advance standards and establish certification suites.
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IDC: thin clients are starting to replace PCs -- IDC research shows that thin clients are beginning to replace PCs in certain enterprise applications. Wait till they discover what's going on in information appliances!
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Draft 4 of POSIX & Single UNIX Spec enters review period -- the joint revision to POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification, being produced by the Austin Group, is now available for review and comment.
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Taiwan's Linux Market Booms -- an article from AsiaBizTech (Taipei) offers some perspective on the growing market for Linux -- and embedded Linux -- in Taiwan.
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Caldera Buys SCO Unix & Professional Services -- Heard the news? Caldera has acquired SCO's Unix business. Though it's not an "embedded" story, it's worth noting.
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IBM DB2 Everyplace 7.1 Beta available for embedded Linux -- the software provides a relational database management system with a tiny footprint of less than 150KB.
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Linux 2.4: Is it soup yet? -- No, the new Linux kernel isn't released yet. Read about the status in this article by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
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*** LINKS OF THE WEEK ***
OpenGUI: an open source graphics & windowing library -- it's a high-Level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 asm graphics kernel.
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IBM BlueDrekar Bluetooth protocol driver for Linux -- the BlueDrekar protocol driver is IBM's new middleware based on Bluetooth specifications allowing Bluetooth wireless devices -- from phones to household appliances -- to reliably communicate with each other.
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PPCBOOT: the Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project -- this is an open source project that intends to implement a common and easily extensible boot program for embedded devices based on PowerPC processors.
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SIMPL: Synchronous Interprocess Messaging Project for Linux -- this is an open source project to bring QNX-style send/Receive/Reply messaging to Linux.
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