Motorola readies music-oriented Linux mobile phone -- Motorola has announced several new multimedia-enabled mobile phones supporting music and video playback, including one based on embedded Linux. The E680, which may become the first of Motorola's Linux-based mobile phones to be offered outside the Far East, will support SD memory expansion cards up to 1GB, and will provide music and video content downloads via USB, Bluetooth, or GPRS.
Migrating custom Linux installations to 2.6 -- This whitepaper, the fourth in a series on the 2.6 Linux kernel by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, provides an overview of the types of changes that you may need to make to a customized or specialized Linux installation in order to use it with the Linux 2.6 kernel. This installment builds on the configuration file and administrative updates that were touched on in the previous article in the series.
Introducing Possio's programmable Linux-based wireless router -- The Possio PX30 is a programmable Linux-based wireless router featuring WLAN, Bluetooth, OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative), and Java support. It is an open platform supported by a "Developer Zone" website, and it targets OSGi-enabled network edge devices that integrate diverse kinds of networks. Learn more about the PX30 in our complete Device Profile.
Linux poised to dominate set-top box market -- Global research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics says Microsoft needs to quickly implement a more competitive licensing scheme if it wants to compete with Linux in the advanced set-top box (STB) market, expected to reach 40 million installed units worldwide by 2008. The report finds momentum building behind Linux, which it calls "a leading contender to become the standard operating system in advanced set-top boxes, such as Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV)."
Linux surging in telecom, industrial automation -- Venture Development Corporation (VDC) has released summary findings from studies examining the use of commercial operating systems and development tools in the telecommunications and industrial automation markets. The reports find Linux "making inroads" in telecom, and "expected to increase rapidly" in industrial automation.
Open source for capitalists -- This essay by Matt Asay explains why he and others organized the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), set to take place next week in San Francisco. Asay, a former student of Lawrence Lessig at Stanford, and a former general manager at Lineo, explains how the OSBC was conceived as a way to "drive the commercial viability of open source software, and consequently breed more of it." Find out more background on the OSBC and the marriage of capitalism and open source in Asay's essay.
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