Book review: Craig Hollabaugh's Embedded Linux -- LinuxDevices.com technical editor Jerry Epplin gives his impressions of the latest major book on the subject of using Linux in embedded systems and smart devices: Craig Hollabaugh's "Embedded Linux -- Hardware, Software, and Interfacing", published by Addison Wesley Professional. Don't miss this highly detailed review -- better yet, read the book! Story
Introducing Dillo, a lightweight embeddable browser -- In this LinuxDevices.com whitepaper, Jorge Arellano Cid, the Dillo project's founder, maintainer, and lead developer, introduces the Embedded Linux community to the Dillo project. What's Dillo? Dillo is a very small, fast, Open Source multi-platform web browser that's written completely in C and built on GTK+ libraries. Dillo's high efficiency and minimal library dependencies make it quite suitable for embedded apps. Dillo can even team up with an embedded webserver to completely eliminate the need for a window manager in an embedded device. Story
The Technology behind LynxOS v4.0's Linux ABI compatibility -- Embedded software vendor LynuxWorks says the newest release of LynxOS, their proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS), has achieved Linux ABI compatibility -- allowing unmodified Linux application binaries to run on LynxOS (without requiring recompilation). This whitepaper by Arun Subbarao, Director of Software Engineering for LynuxWorks, examines the architecture, technology, performance implications, and potential benefits of such an approach. Story
Project says 'adeos' to real-time Linux patents -- The ADEOS project announced its first release of ADEOS, a hardware abstraction layer allowing a real-time kernel and a general purpose kernel to co-exist. According to the announcement, "RTAI will eventually use ADEOS services, thus offering a real-time kernel based on a principle clearly different from the 5,995,745 US Patent" (a.k.a. the 'RTLinux patent'). Here are three stories related to this announcement . . .
Asterisk -- punctuating the path to open source Packet Voice -- This whitepaper provides an introduction to Asterisk, an open source project which implements a Linux-based Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform. Asterisk turns a Linux system to the task of switching calls, and offers a large number of features to support communication in a business environment. Story
Why is Malloc Different Under uClinux? -- SnapGear has published a technical whitepaper which demystifies some of the issues associated with memory management in uClinux, a version of Linux for deeply embedded systems. The whitepaper is written by David McCullough, a kernel engineer at SnapGear who is currently the maintainer of uClinux's ColdFire distributions and who has contributed patches to upgrade uClinux to the Linux 2.4 kernel. Story
Mozilla 1.0 is launched; party time! -- Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services to assist the Mozilla community, announced the release of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release of the Mozilla software. Mozilla will celebrate the release of Mozilla 1.0 with a party in San Francisco at 8pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2002. Here are a pair of related stories . . .
Special Report: 'UnitedLinux' -- reactions and opinions -- Linux distribution vendors Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux have announced the creation of a consortium which will jointly develop 'UnitedLinux', a "standards-based, worldwide Linux solution targeted at the business user." UnitedLinux is intended for enterprise and webserver applications, and will support the LSB, Li18nux, and GB18030 standards. This LinuxDevices.com "UnitedLinux Special Report" gathers together some of the announcements, news, and analysis articles that have been published about UnitedLinux during the week since its formal announcement. Story
Here are some additional news items and announcements of interest from the past week . . .
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