New HP consumer entertainment device has Linux inside
HP will unveil a prototype of a new Linux-powered consumer music appliance at the Tech X NY trade show in New York next week. Although the device -- called the HP Digital Entertainment Center -- contains more computing power than most desktop PCs, it is narrowly focused on being a "single function appliance" in which "simplicity and ease-of-use" are paramont.
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Whitepaper: Linux's Future in the Embedded Market
Stephen Balacco, a senior analyst at Venture Development Corporation (VDC), has written a whitepaper entitled "Linux's Future in the Embedded Market" which summarizes the results of VDC's recently completed Embedded Linux market study. The whitepaper provides a market overview (including annual revenue projections) and discusses the future of Linux in the embedded market.
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Compaq announces handheld Linux apps contest
In a press conference held earlier this week, Compaq announced an application contest for Linux-based handheld devices for the purpose of "[driving] development and adoption of Linux applications on handheld devices such as the Compaq iPAQ." Five finalists and one grand prize winner will be announced at LinuxWorld in August 2001.
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Embedded Linux Expo Europe issues call for papers
A call for papers has been issued for Europe's first Embedded Linux Expo & Conference, which will be held this November in Milan, Italy. Abstracts must be received by July 31, 2001.
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Suit yourself with a wearable (Linux) computer
ane Wakefield of ZDNet UK writes about "MIThril", a wearable computer project taking place at the MIT Media Lab. Linux is currently the OS of choice for this research.
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CNET product review: CodeWarrior (IDE) for Linux
CNET Reviews recently road-tested Metrowerks' CodeWarrior for Linux, Professional Edition 6.0. CodeWarrior is a graphical integrated development environment (IDE) for Linux systems that supports many Embedded Linux distributions.
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Open-source music format ready to play
ZDNet's John Borland reports on the latest release of Ogg Vorbis, an open source alternative to MP3. Ogg Vorbis is actually designed to result in better audio quality than MP3 without any of the associated patent royalties for software developers or music distributors. It already has been adopted by a few major software companies, including Sonic Foundry and AOL Time Warner's Winamp, as well as some music sites.
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Open source compiler (GCC) graduates to 3.0
CNET's Stephen Shankland reports on the latest release the "GNU Compiler Collection" (GCC) and offers some perspective as to its significance in the open source -- and non-open source -- software markets.
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Tux 2.0 blows away Apache in eWEEK benchmark
eWeek Labs tested Red Hat's Tux 2.0 webserver running on a Linux 2.4 kernel, and compared it to the venerable Apache. Tux's performance was truly astounding -- nearly three times as fast!
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Gates: Open source GPL is 'Pac-Man-like'
CNET's Mike Ricciuti spoke with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at the TechEd 2001 conference in Atlanta, GA and reports on some of Gates' opinions about open source in general, and the GNU General Public License (GPL) in particular. "There are problems for commercial users relative to the (GPL), and we are just making sure people understand the GPL," says Gates.
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Bruce Perens: in defense of open source
Bruce Perens, one of the leaders of the free software movement and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, comments on the implications of Microsoft's growing obsession Linux and the open source software movement in this entertaining guest column.
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Free, international Linux, Unix, and Embedded Linux Job Site
a full-featured, free, international, Unix, Linux and embedded Linux job site and resume database. Advanced search, nightly email agents, discussion mailing list, jobs posted to usenet, company directory, syndication of jobs via xml and more.
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the TV Linux Alliance
The TV Linux Alliance will define a standards-based Linux environment for the digital set-top box market. The technology suppliers to cable, satelite, and telecommunications operators have allied to produce Linux standards designed to improve time-to-market and product robustness in the advanced set-top box market.
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The OST Developer Network
The goal of the Open Standards Terminal (OST) software project is to provide a hardware independent, simple platform for home entertainment applications. The code is based on established Open Source projects such as Linux and Mozilla, as well as code being developed on this site.
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the Video for Linux resources page
Here you will find links to programs and information about the Video for Linux API which actually handles more than just video these days. Video sources include TV cards and video-cams, but there are also audio sources like radio cards.
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