What's up with Red Hat's embedded strategy? -- Last week, we brought you news that Red Hat has discontinued development of its eCos open source embedded operating system, laying off seven of its nine-member U.K.-based eCos development team. "That area is something we have moved on from," said Red Hat chief operating officer Tim Buckley in a June 18 interview with CNET's Stephen Shankland. Just what "area" is it that Red Hat has "moved on from", and where have they "moved on" to? To gain further insight into Red Hat's current embedded market strategy, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum caught up with Red Hat's Chief Technology officer, Michael Tiemann. Story
Sharp introduces new version of Linux-based Zaurus PDA in Japan -- Sharp announced a new Linux-based handheld for the Japanese market. The company introduced the device at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday. The Zaurus SL-A300 uses Intel's 200MHz XScale PXA210 processor equipped with 64MB of memory, has a 320 x 240 pixels TFT LCD display, and like its predecessor it provides both SD Card and CompactFlash expansion. This news item includes more details, a photo, and a link to specifications (in Japanese) on Sharp's website. Story
KOrganizer/Embedded 1.0 released -- The first stable release of the embedded version of KDE's famous calendar and scheduling tool, KOrganizer/Embedded is available. KOrganizer/Embedded is the PDA version of KOrganizer for the Qtopia desktop. It has been developed for and tested on a Sharp Zaurus, but it should also work on other PDAs able to run Qt/Embedded. KOrganizer/Embedded uses a small KDE compatibility library, microkde, which provides the KDE features required to run KOrganizer/Embedded. Story
GNU Bayonne 1.0 preliminary release and call for help -- After two years of development, a 1.0 preliminary release candidate for GNU Bayonne has now emerged. GNU Bayonne is a freely licensed telephony server which may be used to create, deploy, and manage embedded, standalone, and web-integrated telephony voice response solutions. The preliminary 1.0 release supports a new driver that allows anyone with a soundcard to test or debug a GNU Bayonne server, simulate call flow, and create or debug GNU Bayonne telephony applications -- and the project is asking for volunteers to help in various areas. Story
Real-Time Linux Workshop 2002 Boston issues call for papers -- The Real-Time Linux Workshop 2002 will be held in December at the Computer Science Department at Boston University. Those wishing to participate in the workshop as a speaker are invited to submit an abstract on topics such as real-time Linux modifications/variants, tools for embedding real-time Linux, application examples, and works in progress. Story
Meet 'Mira', a .NET-based smart display device technology -- Microsoft's Bill Gates announced 'Mira' in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year. According to Microsoft, Mira is the codename for a set of Windows technologies that will "extend the Windows PC experience throughout the home by powering the next generation of smart display devices." Microsoft expects these smart display devices "to range, over time, from easily detachable flat-panel PC monitors to television sets." Story
Here are some additional news items and announcements of interest from the past week . . .
Read them here: June 20, 2002, June 13, 2002, June 6, 2002, May 30, 2002, May 23, 2002, May 16, 2002, May 9, 2002, May 2, 2002, Apr. 25, 2002, Apr. 18, 2002, Apr. 11, 2002, Apr. 4, 2002, Mar. 28, 2002, Mar. 21, 2002, Mar. 14, 2002, Mar. 7, 2002, Feb. 28, 2002, Feb. 21, 2002, Feb. 14, 2002, Feb. 7, 2002, Jan. 31, 2002, Jan. 24, 2002, Jan. 17, 2002, Jan. 10, 2002, Jan. 3, 2002
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