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the LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter
August 3, 2000
by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor, ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com
IBM "Vikings" seek more Linux conquests -- IBM, intent on making Linux pervasive on every platform from mainframes to handhelds, is helping to bring Bluetooth technology to Linux. story
*** SPECIAL FEATURE ***
Inder Singh on the merger of LynuxWorks and ISDCorp -- Rick Lehrbaum chats with LynuxWorks chairman Inder Singh about the significance of the recently announced merger of LynuxWorks and ISDCorp, the benefits to embedded Linux customers, and how the idea for the merger developed. story
Coollogic intro's new Linux-based set-top box -- the new set-top box offers Internet access with advanced audio and video technologies for improved Web surfing on TVs. story
Are QNX style messaging tools for Linux "SIMPL"? -- SIMPL, a one year old open source effort to bring QNX style message passing tools to Linux, is starting to show results in some real world applications. story
August TuxTalk from the Embedded Linux Consortium -- the latest ELC newsletter is now available. story
Bluepoint develops embedded Linux for Chinese set-top box -- the company has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to develop an embedded Chinese Linux operating system for a set-top box for the China market. story
Open Group announces real-time POSIX test suite -- the multi-vendor Open Group consortium has two new test suites available for real-time POSIX complance testing and certification. story
Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project now at SourceForge -- the open source PPCBOOT project, now hosted at SourceForge, seeks shared sponsorship of its development activities. story
New Zealand's "1st Internet Appliance company" embeds Linux -- Kiwi-Classifieds has launched a family Linux-based Internet Appliances. The devices are packaged in a Taiwan-manufactured box and run Lineo Embedix. story
Lineo announces GPL real-time networking for Linux: RTnet -- RTnet is an open source modification to the existing Linux networking subsystem. It enables hard real-time networking over standard IP networks. story
Intel's dream: A penguin in every home? -- John Spooner of ZDNet takes a look at Intel's plans to conquer the home entertainment network. Intel may be planning to use Linux in a new Pentium or StrongARM based Media Appliance. story
Axis releases Internet / Wireless Appliance development platform -- a new development board helps designers develop Linux-based Internet Appliances based on the ETRAX system-on-chip. story
Have a Penguin answer your calls -- an interesting how-to article explains how to turn a Linux based computer into an answering machine appliance. story
Korea Electronic Times visits PalmPalm Technology -- here's an interesting glimpse into embedded Linux activities in Korea. story
Device Driver Toolkit allows Cross-Platform Development -- Jungo announced cross platform development tools that simplify and automate the development of Linux kernel-mode drivers. story
*** LINKS OF THE WEEK ***
IrNET for Linux-IrDA -- IrNET is a protocol to carry TCP/IP traffic between two IrDA peers in an efficient fashion. story
handhelds.org -- a handheld computing resource site -- this open source and Linux oriented site is devoted to handheld and wearable computers. It should become a good source of technologies for many types of portable devices and embedded systems. story
The Linux BIOS Home Page -- instead of running BIOS and then Linux, on startup, run Linux directly. story
Tiny-X -- a mini X Window server for embedded devices -- a small footprint X Window server implementation for embedded systems, developed by Keith Packard of the XFree86 Core Team, can fit within 1MB on x86 CPUs. story
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