The Business of Embedded Linux -- In this opinion column at LinuxDevices.com, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers a perspective on the business side of the Embedded Linux Market. Vaughan-Nichols sees 'consolidation' in his crystal ball. Who will win? Who will lose? Story
Meet Dragonix, an 'open hardware' Linux SBC -- There's a new Embedded Linux kid in town, and his name is the "Dragonix". What's Dragonix? It's an "Open Hardware" single-board computer (SBC), based on a Motorola Dragonball 68VZ328 processor, that runs uClinux. The Dragonix project has already spawned a series of add-on boards that make it easy to build things like firewalls, MP3 players, and home automation apps around the Dragonix SBC. Story
BOEL, Part 2: Kernel Configuration and Booting -- This is Part 2 of an ELJonline technical series about Brian's Own Embedded Linux ("BOEL"), a small embeddable Linux distribution that can boot from disk, CDROM, or the Net. Brian Finley developed BOEL as part of a project to create a tool for distributing live updates to client systems, which required that the client machines be booted in such a manner that their hard disks were not in use so that they would be available for manipulation. Much of the focus is on creating a system as small as possible -- the complete BOEL system must fit on a single 1.44MB floppy. The first article showed how to create an initrd and discussed issues such as libraries, shells, filesystems, and inodes; in this installment, Finley covers the kernel configuration and boot process. Story
A TimeSys perspective on the Linux preemptible kernel -- This whitepaper by Dr. Doug Locke, Vice President of Technology at TimeSys Corp., explores the changes recently made to the mainstream Linux development kernel to improve its preemptibility, discusses the implications of these changes relative to embedded and real-time applications, and contrasts the recently adopted approach with that used in TimeSys Linux GPL. Story
Linux vendors to unify efforts -- This article from ZDNet reports that SuSE, Caldera, and Turbolinux will announce an effort to combat the fragmentation of the Linux operating system as well as to counter the dominant market share of Red Hat. The initiative will reportedly involve creating a jointly standardized Linux distribution. Story
LinuxDevices.com's headline feed adds options -- The LinuxDevices.com news headline feed makes it easy for you to offer Embedded Linux daily news headlines on your personal or corporate website. Everyone is encouraged to carry our headlines, in order to help proliferate awareness of -- and use of -- Embedded Linux. (Note: Another use of the headline feed is as a 'lightweight' news page for handheld PCs.) Our headline feeds are offered in three formats -- text, html, and rdf (rss). Plus, there are now multiple implementations of each, which offer the latest 5, 10, and 25 headlines respectively. Story
Here are some additional news items and announcements of interest from the past week . . .
Read them here: 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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