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FEATURE ARTICLE: Peeking under the hood of SnapGear's uClinux-powered VPN appliances -- LinuxDevices.com technical editor Jerry Epplin takes a look at SnapGear's award-winning uClinux-based VPN appliances from the perspective of a developer's ability to customize them -- and in the process, becomes a uClinux convert. "uClinux is probably the most exciting development in embedded Linux today, and perhaps in the larger Linux world as well," says Epplin. Story
WHITEPAPER: The Compelling Case for Open Source Embedded Tools -- This whitepaper presents a case that open source GNU tools are mature, reliable, and ready for wide-scale adoption in the embedded market, and that they represent an excellent means to the avoid risks and problems of software tools obsolescence, vendor lock-in, and vanishing sources which often plague complex, long lifecycle, embedded projects. Story
Latest news from the uClibc project -- CodePoet Consulting released version 0.9.17 of uClibc, which now boasts fully standards compliant locale support (optional). Additionally, a set of standalone uClibc-based filesystems are now available for download, which contain all the development software needed to start building applications linked against uClibc for use on x86, PowerPC, and ARM processors. Story
Japanese manufacturers back off proprietary (embedded) OSes -- Recent moves by Sony, Matsushita, and other Japanese consumer electronics powerhouses to develop a Linux-based consumer device operating system represent a significant trend away from proprietary embedded operating systems, according to this article at EE Times. Story
Linux APIs planned for "Trusted Computing Platform" -- InfoWorld reports that Linux-based APIs are in the works for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance's (TCPA'S) security initiative, which includes specialized hardware for secure communications. Story
IBM explains Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) security chip -- In order to clarify "a lot of misunderstanding" about their TCPA chip, IBM is making available some "helpful" white papers and open source device drivers for Linux, so that interested people can test and use the chip in an open environment. Story
XBox modchip includes preinstalled Cromwell Linux BIOS -- OzXChip has released a new XBox modchip which comes preinstalled with the new Cromwell Linux BIOS. The company claims that because the new Cromwell BIOS is fully open source, it can be shipped with the chip without any legal risks. Story
Helix DNA Client being ported to Linux ARM (and Sharp Zaurus) -- A project has been started to port the open source Helix DNA client (based on RealNetworks to ARM processors under Linux with an initial objective of getting it working on the Sharp Zaurus 5500 and 5600 Linux PDAs. The objective of the Helix DNA platform is to provide an open and comprehensive universal platform for digital media delivery. Story
GnomeMeeting version 0.96 is released -- Thanks to additional IP Telephony capabilities, GnomeMeeting can now place PC-to-Phone calls anywhere in the world using Quicknet's MicroTelco Internet Telephone Service. GnomeMeeting is an H.323 compatible videoconferencing and VOIP/IP-Telephony application that allows making audio and video calls to remote systems with H.323 hardware or software (such as Microsoft Netmeeting). Story
KDE project releases KDE 3.1 -- The KDE Project released KDE 3.1, the popular open source Linux desktop and windowing environment. KDE includes a basic desktop, an integrated development environment, and 17 other packages, and supports 47 languages. Story
Umigumi: an instant appliance setup program for embedded systems -- The OpenBrick Community introduced Umigumi, an open source program which enables easy reconfiguration of embedded platforms (or standard PCs) in just a few seconds, changing them into various types of appliances such as routers, firewalls, VPNs, OGG players, print servers. Story
Movial's wireless comm software to support MontaVista's embedded Linux -- The combined technologies will support mobile apps such as Instant Messaging, and upcoming MMS, VoIP, and multimedia, in Linux-based consumer devices such as PDAs, smartphones, automotive telematics, set-top boxes, and digital TVs. Story
Debugger supports GCC 3.2 and Intel Linux compilers -- Etnus announced the latest version of TotalView, a source level, graphical debugger for Linux, which now supports GNU GCC 3.2, and Version 7.0 of Intel's C++ and Fortran compilers for Linux. Story
New source-level Linux kernel debug tool supports ARM, XScale -- American Arium released a source-level kernel debug solution for ARM- and XScale-based embedded Linux systems. The product consists of the company's SourcePoint debugging software plus Arium SC-1000 JTAG emulator. Story
Call for papers: workshop on RT/Embedded distributed object computing -- The Object Management Group (OMG) issued a Call for Presentations for its annual workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. The four-day event will be held in Washington, DC on July 14-17, 2003. Story
Override the GNU C library -- painlessly -- A great way to debug glibc functions is to override the function of interest with your own version. This can be done without having root permissions and without recompiling the libc source, as explained in this article. Story
Starter kit for Sharp BlueStreak system-on-chip supports Linux -- Sharp Microelectronics and Logic Product Development unveiled a development kit for Sharp's BlueStreak LH79520 system-on-chip embedded processor, a highly integrated SOC for mobile handheld applications. The kit consists of a small BlueStreak-based SBC with an available Linux BSP. Story
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