Yodaiken: Against Priority Inheritance -- In this technical whitepaper, RTLinux originator Victor Yodaiken details what he perceives to be the disadvantages of dealing with the issue of priority inversion in real-time systems by means of a commonly used software technique known as priority inheritance. Priority inversion refers to the situation when a scheduled task must wait for a lower priority task to complete. Story
Why Linux is becoming the Residential Gateway platform of choice -- This whitepaper from REDSonic explains why product designers are increasingly making use of Linux as the embedded software platform in Residential Gateway products of many sizes and variations, lists some of the requirements, and identifies sources of software useful to this effort. Story
NXTV embeds Opera's Linux browser in set-top box for luxury hotels -- Opera's Linux browser has been embedded in NXTV's digital set-top boxes. The Linux-based devices will provide full-featured Internet access to guests using digital broadband interactive television services in some of America's most luxurious hotels. Story
JTAG-based debugging comes to embedded Linux systems -- A joint project of MontaVista Software and Embedded Performance Inc. (EPI) brings the power of JTAG-based run-control and real-time execution tracing, a mainstay of traditional embedded development, into the mainly software-based embedded Linux arena. Story
FSMLabs sends RTLinux to college -- FSMLabs has announced a collaboration with the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology. The arrangement will provide RTLinux real-time control software to Georgia Institute of Technology for use in both research and advanced systems classes. Story
Xilinx and MontaVista announce Embedded Linux for PPC-based FPGA -- MontaVista Linux will soon support the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro field-programmable gate array (FPGA), thereby enabling developers of embedded Linux products to target a completely programmable, re-programmable, and field-upgradable silicon system platform. The Virtex-II Pro FPGA offers hard IBM PowerPC 405 processor cores, custom IP generation, multi-gigabit serial transceivers, and on-board RAM. Story
Embedded Linux seminar in Bangalore, India -- Lineo India has announced a two-day embedded Linux workshop to be held in Bangalore, India on July 22-23, 2002. The workshop will feature both the theory and the practice of embedded Linux software development. Story
Commercial toolkit supports embedded webserver-based apps -- Art & Logic released a toolkit for creating remote control applications using the popular open source GoAhead WebServer. Typical memory footprint is 300KB. Story
Linux penguin graces Xbox -- A German programmer claims to have accomplished the first step toward running Linux on Microsoft's Xbox game console legally. The effort represents important progress toward claiming the $200,000 prize offered anonymously for a working, legal port of Linux to the Xbox (see last week's newsletter). Story
Palm 'mulled Linux' for next-generation PDA OS -- Palm Inc was considering Linux as the foundation of the next-generation PalmOS as recently as last spring, according to an article published by The Register. The idea was reportedly abandoned due to inconsistencies with Palm's corporate intellectual property philosophy. Story
New study probes Chinese S/W development trends -- Evans Data Corp. will soon offer its first detailed picture of software development in the world's most populous nation with the publication of its inaugural Chinese Developer Survey. The 250-page study examines platform use and migrations, language usage, Web development, Web services, Linux and open systems software, Java, security, development issues, and tools. Story
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