Welcome to LinuxDevices.com's Embedded Linux Newsletter May 27, 2004 by Rick Lehrbaum Editor-in-chief

Enterprise KVM server runs embedded Linux -- Open source software and embedded Linux helped Cyclades build advanced security capabilities into a keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) server that shipped last September. The KVM AlterPath also features Cat5 wiring to servers and remote access terminals, as well as Web-based IP access. Find out more in our complete Device Profile.

World's first device to run Linux on DSP? -- X-Digital Systems has launched what it claims is the first device to run Linux natively on a single-core digital signal processor (DSP). The FlikIt IP-STB (Internet protocol set-top box) runs Softier's "MediaLinux" on a Texas Instruments TMS320DM64x DSP. It targets corporate communications, and is available as either a reference design or a device.

Next era of explosive technology growth: device software -- The "intelligent connected device" will be the next hotbed of innovation and growth in the technology sector -- revolutionizing markets as they exist today, according to embedded operating system market leader Wind River. In a talk in San Jose, Wind River chairman and CEO Ken Klein predicted a major shift in device software, and declared that companies not actively building connectivity and intelligence into their products today will not survive past the next wave of technology innovation and growth.

Linux kernel hackers must now sign patches -- Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel development team have adopted a contribution tracking system, under which developers digitally sign patches to acknowledge their right to contribute them. The system will help track contributions and ensure proper developer credit, according to the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which oversees Linux development.

AMD stirs Athlon technology into Geode embedded soup -- AMD, which in recent months has gained ground against Intel in the battle for the desktop, this week announced the addition of a line of high-performance, low-power embedded processors to its Geode embedded x86 processor family. The new processors will be known as the "Geode NX 1500@6W" and the "Geode NX 1750@14W," reflecting a new naming convention based on relative performance and power consumption.

Renesas says new mobile phone chip is ready for Linux -- Renesas has announced a new mobile phone processor with the power to run embedded Linux. Renesas says the new SH-Mobile3 chip is more than twice as powerful as previous SH-Mobile processors, and includes a camera interface, sound, graphics processing, and more. The core features a new superscalar technology supporting simultaneous execution of two instructions, along with a seven-stage pipeline architecture and delivers up to 389 MIPS performance.

Tiny Linux startup sees through HP-Dell "Recycle" scheme -- A New York startup selling Linux-based thin-client management software has called foul on HP and Dell for recent efforts to fund computer recycling programs. Symbio Technologies says the computing giants stand to sell more new PCs if potential diskless clients are destroyed, instead of being donated to schools or resold.

OTHER NEWSWORTHY ITEMS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PAST WEEK . . .

• Linux fans, foes make Top Software Developers list
  
• Cyberguard updates, rebrands SnapGear uClinux-based security products
  
• Multi-OS "virtual platform" runs embedded Linux, RTOSes
  
• Linux BSPs available for custom PowerQUICC SoCs
  
• Software-only VoIP stack ships first on Linux, ARM
  
• Embedded Linux specialist joins connected home SoC ecosystem
  
• Virtualization tools startup adds EDA vet, embedded Linux partners
  
• Dev board targets low-power secure networking devices
  
• Linux-on-Hynix page launches
  
• Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 review
  
• Interview with Linux kernel hacker Andrea Arcangeli
  
• 802.11e/g/i "mini-module" designed for handhelds
  

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