An interview with Lineo's Chief Operating Officer
In this interesting interview with Lineo's chief operating officer, Matt Harris, LinuxDevices.com asks Harris to explain Lineo's Open Source philosophy, clarify Lineo's Embedded Linux licensing policies, and comment on Lineo's contributions to Open Source.
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Meet Isamu, the humanoid robot
Isamu stands 53 inches tall, weighs 121 pounds, and walks at over one mile per hour. Not only that, Isamu climbs up and down stairs, carries 4-pound objects in its hand-like grippers, and even recognizes human faces via its dual-camera stereo vision system. Isamu's brain "brain" consists of a dual-Pentium computer running RTLinux.
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An animated BusyBox mini-tutorial
This handy little online "Flash" presentation (from K Computing) provides an extremely well presented, easy-to-follow, step-by-step mini-tutorial on BusyBox -- the "Swiss Army Knife" of Embedded Linux. Everything you always wanted to know about BusyBox, but were afraid to ask!
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The briQ -- a CDROM-sized Linux system
LinuxDevices.com profiles the briQ, a tiny PowerPC based Linux system that matches the dimensions of a 5.25-inch CD-ROM drive. The device can be deployed in both single-processor (one briQ) and multi-processor (many briQ) configurations.
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HP launches "CoolBase" open source project
Hewlett-Packard Company announces the launch of an Open Source project called "CoolBase" this week at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego. CoolBase is a group of software and hardware technologies that together form a platform on which mobile e-services for embedded personal systems can be implemented as part of HP Lab's pervasive computing initiative known as "Cooltown".
Background and interview at LinuxDevices.com
Perspective article from ZDNet News

Linux based POS rolls into Home Depot stores
Wincor Nixdorf announced that The Home Depot has chosen the Linux-based BEETLE/Mobile Point-of-Sale (POS) platform for supporting their mobile inventory management applications in the company's Expo Design Center stores. Score one for Linux   ;)
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Sony survey guages interest in Linux for PlayStation2
Sony has posted an online survey to guage interest in making a PS2 Linux kit available in the US. If you'd like Sony to offer a Linux option for the PlayStation2, this is a great opportunity to express your opinion directly to Sony's PS2 product management team.
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NASA robot to use Linux, Pentium III
ZDNet's Matthew Broersma reports that NASA's Ames Research Center is building a "personal satellite assistant", powered by a Pentium III with the Linux operating system, to help out astronauts on space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) missions. The device is a 6-inch sphere that autonomously propells itself around in the weightless environment of the shuttle or space station.
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Study shows Microsoft gaining ground in PDAs
In a recent study, embedded systems market analyst Venture Development Corporation reports that although certain segments of the embedded market have been slow to adopt Microsoft's "Windows Embedded" operating systems, the software giant is beginning to gain ground with Windows CE (Pocket PC) in the consumer electronics segment.
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Other news items & announcements of interest . . .
Microsoft "opens" code for Windows CE
Trace analyzer tool supports embedded Linux
Berkeley DB gains HA and embedded Linux support
Embedded Linux at the upcoming ESC Boston
Lineo reduces workforce by 13 percent

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