Introducing Qplus, an open source embedded Linux toolkit -- This article by Jerry Epplin takes a detailed look Qplus, examining what the project has accomplished and what is still to be done. Epplin writes: "The introduction of Qplus is certain to be a welcome development for developers who have been hoping for a pure open source embedded Linux toolkit. It is already an impressively capable kit, with suitably ambitious goals and a well-designed infrastructure to achieve them."  Story

New Linux PDA for the Chinese market -- Group Sense PDA Ltd. has introduced a Linux-based PDA into the Chinese market. Like many recent PDA introductions, the device is based on an Intel StrongARM system-on-chip processor and provides a full-color 320 x 240 pixel LCD display. This exclusive LinuxDevices.com news item provides a brief overview (and small photo) of the device.  Story

Controlling Creatures with Linux -- Learn how RTLinux has been used to satisfy various real-time requirements of The Jim Henson Company's animatronics and 3-D computer graphic puppets, in this Linux Journal article published at Embedded Linux Journal Online (ELJonline).  Story

Microwindows v0.89 is released -- Microwindows continues its forward progress with this newest release. Major enhancements include added fonts, multithreading library support, tiles, stipples, dashed line, non-rectangular window support, support for the DVDVIEW and SMPEG digital multimedia players, and the recently added support for Microwindows in the SDL library.  Story

Microsoft targets Linux developers on Slashdot website -- Microsoft has been venturing into enemy territory again in its latest bid to win converts from the Linux community, according to an exclusive news item at WindowsForDevices.com.  Story

VDC report on Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2002 -- LinuxDevices.com has published a report from embedded market analyst Venture Development Corporation (VDC), which provides a perspective on the Embedded Systems Conference held earlier this month in Boston. Is there still life left in ESC? What is this venerable conference's most likely future role?  Story

Other noteworthy news items and announcements from the past week . . .

• New Xilinx FPGA eval platform features PowerPC, RocketIO, Linux
  
• STB SOC enables "world's smallest digital terrestrial STBs"
  
• Mozilla 1.2 is released
  
• DotGNU Portable.Net 0.4.8 is released
  
• Reference design supports HomePlug enabled CableHome gateways
  
• IBM leverages SoC tech in supercomputer design
  
• Transmeta previews "Crusoe" uP successor
  
• Intel and Los Alamos National Lab build largest InfiniBand cluster
  
• Free web seminar series on telematics design, technologies, standards
  
• Article: Experimenting with New Methods in Voice over IP
  
• Article: Intel sees multi-hop wireless nets in our future
  
• Article: Fundamentals of grid computing
  
• Article: An Overview of the Boa Web Server
  
• Article: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 13
  
• Book review: Practical Linux Programming
  

• Article talkbacks
  
• Linux on PDAs
  
• Embedded Linux Q&A
  
• Real-time Linux
  
• GPL issues & discussion
  
• Embedded Java+Linux
  
• Little Linux systems
  
• General discussion
  

• Introduction & Overview ("start here")
  
• Embedded Linux Distributions
  
• Real-time Linux
  
• GUI/Windowing Software
  
• Java on Embedded Linux
  
• System-on-Chip Processors
  
• Single Board Computers
  
• Little Linux Systems
  
• Linux-Based "Cool Devices"
  
• Linux-PDAs and PDA-Linux
  
• Embedded Linux Market
  

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