A sneak preview of Musenki's new wireless access point -- LinuxDevices.com offers an exclusive sneak preview of Musenki's new wireless access point which was slated to ship to beta customers earlier this week. In this interview, Musenki founders Jim Thompson and Kem McClelland describe the young company's soon-to-be shipped products, discuss the company's vision, and credit Linux and other open source software with helping speed development. Story
What's an 'ICE Box' and what's inside one? -- When Linux NetworX announced a new appliance-like device that is used for managing rack-mounted Linux clusters, called the ICE Box, LinuxDevices.com naturally wanted to crack open the ICE Box's door to find out what's inside. In this article, Linux NetworX Cluster Tools product manager Jason Lowry opens up the ICE Box and takes you on a tour of its internal hardware and software, explaining what it does and how Embedded Linux helps get its job done. Story
About the new Linux USB Device support -- Lineo has released Linux USB Device software, which was developed to support the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA, under the GNU GPL open source license. "But doesn't the Linux kernel (2.4 and later) already contain built-in USB support?", you ask. Stuart Lynne, a Senior Engineer at Lineo Inc., wrote this brief whitepaper to explain the significance and software architecture of the new USB Device support, which he helped create. Story
New 'ultra-personal computer' will run Linux -- OQO unveiled a tiny modular computer this week at Microsoft's WinHEC conference. The device weighs just 9 ounces, is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket, and has built-in wireless connectivity to both 802.11b and Bluetooth -- yet it contains the processing and storage resources of a well equipped desktop PC. In fact, it is instantly transformed into just such a system by popping it into a cradle that adds connections for a full-sized keyboard and monitor. But will it run Linux? LinuxDevices.com has the answer to this question, plus extensive specs, a photo, and some other intriguing details. Story
Weekly Zaurus roundup -- Sharp's Zaurus continues to make headlines. Here are pointers to two reviews (including a complimentary one at ZDNet and a critical one at the Wall Street Journal), plus news of a new Og Vorbis media file player for the device . . .
What the heck is WinHEC? -- This week, Microsoft hosted the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, WA. In the first of the following triad of stories, CNET's Stephen Shankland gives a summary of the major topics and technologies that were on the WinHEC agenda. The other two stories focus on a new capability being pushed by Microsoft -- support for a new Windows PC peripheral, the remote control, through an initiative known as "Freestyle" . . .
Here are some additional news items and announcements of interest from the past week . . .
As part of our continuing efforts to support the rapidly growing Embedded Linux Market, we are pleased to announce the online 2001 Embedded Linux Market Survey. The survey, which is structured in three parts, asks developers of Linux-based embedded systems and intelligent devices to anonymously provide information about their applications, their embedded Linux OS requirements and preferences, and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of using Linux in embedded applications.
Read them here: 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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