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LinuxDevices.com spoke with LiMo Foundation executive director Morgan Gillis about LiMo's upcoming R2 release and a slate of new LiMo phones due this year. Gillis discusses why LiMo is different than other mobile Linux platforms and offers insights on Intel's Wind River acquisition, Android, Chrome, Symbian, and more.
Ten years after: An Interview with MontaVista's Jim Ready
Embedded Linux pioneer and MontaVista CTO and founder Jim Ready recently spoke with LinuxDevices about how the industry has changed over the last decade. The interview arrives on the heels of MontaVista's 10th anniversary.
Deploying Linux Embedded Systems
Foreword -- This article concludes a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. Initial installments described how to build a simple embedded system, add a simple web server, build an embedded web kiosk, and further improve a system.
Tutorial: Improving an embedded Linux system
Foreword -- This article continues a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. The initial installments described how to build a simple embedded system, adding a simple web server, and how to build an embedded Linux web kiosk.
Tutorial: An ARM-based web kiosk system
Foreword -- This article continues a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. The initial installments described how to build a simple embedded system, adding a simple web server, and how to build an embedded Linux web kiosk.
Tutorial: A web kiosk embedded system
Foreword -- This article continues a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development contributed by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. In the initial installments, the Simtec engineers first described how to build a simple embedded system, then how to add a simple web server.
Intro to V4L2 (Part 2)
Foreword -- This is the second of two articles describing the V4L2 (Video for Linux 2) interface, along with the first steps toward developing a device driver that uses the interface. It is based on Linux 2.6.28, and may not apply to other kernel versions.
Tutorial: Building an embedded Linux system with a web server
Foreword -- This article continues a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development contributed by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. In the initial installment, the Simtec engineers described how embedded devices differ from other computers, and how to build & the most basic system possible.& This second installment now covers the construction of a...
Tutorial: A simple embedded Linux system
Foreword -- This article begins a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development contributed by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. In the initial installment, the Simtec engineers describe how embedded devices differ from other computers, and how to build & the most basic system possible.&
Guest opinion: LiMo should go back to the drawing board
Foreword: This paper examines the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo), a well-funded industry group aiming to standardize Linux on phones, but facing marginalization from free stacks like Android, Qt, and even Open Symbian. After in-depth analysis of LiMo and the phone market, author Andreas Constantinou concludes that LiMo must re-invent itself.
Intro to V4L2
Foreword -- This article describes the V4L2 (Video for Linux 2) interface, along with the first steps toward developing a device driver that uses the interface. It is based on Linux 2.6.28, and may not apply to other kernel versions.
CEO Interview: Roman Pakholkov of Promwad
Foreword -- Roman Pakholkov is founder and CEO of Promwad, a fast-growing independent product design center in Eastern Europe. In this fascinating interview, Pakholkov describes Promwad's history and early successes, with a special focus on the role of embedded Linux in the company's past and future.
CEO Interview: Glenda Dorchak of VirtualLogix
Foreword -- Glenda Dorchak joined embedded and real-time virtualization specialist VirtualLogix in January, taking over the CEO role. Dorchak has 30 years of tech industry management experience, most recently at Windows Mobile device specialist Intrinsyc, and plans to focus the company on high-growth...
Elphel camera under the hood: from Verilog to PHP
Foreword: -- This paper describes the recent imaging advances by Elphel, supplier of open source (hardware and software) cameras to customers that include Google (for select Street View and book scanning projects). It should interest imaging engineers, fans of open source, and those curious about open source hardware.
Linux leader on Microsoft woes
Foreword -- Microsoft today laid off 1,400 workers, with another 3,600 on the block within 18 months. We asked Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin what if any role Linux played in Microsoft's misfortunes, how Microsoft will react, and what it could mean for Linux and the open source community. Enjoy . . . !
Mobile World Congress opens up
Mobile veteran Jason Whitmire (pictured) has written an editorial previewing the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Whitmire, who is Wind River's GM of Mobile Solutions, says the show will be more Linux- and open-source flavored than ever, with LiMo, Android, and Moblin all vying for attention.
Getting started with an embedded Linux system emulator
Foreword -- This article describes setting up an embedded Linux cross-development environment targeting a virtual machine running on the development host. It covers installing Qemu and using it to debug applications and kernels, both with supplied test-images and with custom kernel/filesystem images...
Linux camera launched at Lunar X PRIZE
Foreword -- This article describes an all-volunteer science project's use of a donated Linux camera for the Jaluro rover it hopes to field in Google's Lunar X PRIZE competition. It discusses several advantages that patent-free Open Source software like Linux and Theora offer for scientific research projects.
Android app offers remote medical diagnostics
An open source project at MIT has developed a Linux- and Android-based remote medical diagnostics application aimed at developing nations. The & Moca& software integrates an Android app for remote diagnostics, a back-end Linux server application, and the OpenMRS medical records database, says the group.
Jim Zemlin on Moblin and the well-hedged OS
In an interview with the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin, the group's executive director explains why Moblin is & the project you want to watch.& Zemlin (pictured) also touts Linux for being ideally & well hedged& to survive the recession, but points to a future obstacle for the OS.