LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Newsletter -- February 22, 2001


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Embedded Linux Newsletter
February 22, 2001

by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor
ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com


*** FEATURE ARTICLES ***

Adeos -- a resource sharing multi-OS environment -- in this interview, Rick Lehrbaum speaks with Karim Yaghmour, the founder of Adeos, a new open source project to develop an "Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems". The purpose of Adeos is to provide a flexible environment for sharing hardware resources among multiple operating systems, or among multiple instances of a single OS. According to Yaghmour, Adeos will support the kinds of dual-OS Linux environments that are today achieved using RTLinux or RTAI, but without making use of the technology that is the subject of Victor Yodaiken's RTLinux patent. story

Linux lookalike RTOS passes "Quake test" -- in this article, Rick Lehrbaum describes a demo he observed at LinuxWorld in New York, where LynuxWorks previewed a new capability of the company's proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS), LynxOS -- Linux "application binary interface" (ABI) compatibility. story

DSPs and Embedded Linux: a great combination -- this whitepaper by Phil Verghese, CTO of RidgeRun, takes a close look at the growing trend of combining Embedded Linux with digital signal processors (DSPs) in smart devices and embedded systems used in a wide range of consumer and commercial applications. story

An introduction to Waba -- an open source Java-like platform -- this whitepaper describes a new open source Java-like platform called "Waba" that is currently being ported to Linux. The Waba VM is well suited for use in Linux-based embedded and mobile devices, requiring just 40KB on an M68K. story

The State of Embedded Linux -- this is the slide presentation given by Rick Lehrbaum at the recent Real-Time and Embedded Systems Forum held February 6, 2001 in San Jose, CA. Topics covered include . . . story

*** OTHER NEWS ***

ELC call for papers: talks on Embedded Linux for LinuxWorld -- The Embedded Linux Consortium has issued a call for papers, for talks on Embedded Linux at the LinuxWorld Expo to be held in San Francisco this August. story

Qt/Embedded wins "Norwegian Product of the Year" award -- Trolltech's Qt/Embedded has won Computerworld Norway's "Golden Mouse" award for the best Norwegian technology product of the year 2000. story

Linux NetworX ports LinuxBIOS to the Alpha platform -- Linux NetworX announced a port of LinuxBIOS to the Alpha platform. story

Bluetooth hardware/software IP supports wireless designs -- Wipro Technologies announced a comprehensive "intellectual property" (IP) offering that contains all the technology needed to rapidly integrate Bluetooth into new product designs including PCs, PDAs, mobile phones, printers, fax, and wireless LAN access points. story

REDSonic announces real-time Linux events in Asia -- a series of upcoming events in Asia will give Linux developers and users a vision of the real-time embedded operating system possibilities available through Linux. story

Intelligent devices: A new arena for Linux -- Brazil's OLinux website has published an interview with LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum. OLinux asks Lehrbaum about the background of LinuxDevices.com and for his perspective on the Embedded Linux market. story

Report from the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum -- Andrew Josey of the Open Group wrote this summary of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum held in San Jose, CA in February 2001. story

Linux Weekly News editorial on the RTLinux Patent Issue -- this thoughtful and excellently written editorial at Linux Weekly News briefly reviews some important issues which the software development community needs to work out, brought to the fore at this time by the recent unveiling of the RTLinux patent. The Linux Weekly News editorial asks -- and offers an opinion on -- these three questions . . . story

*** LINKS OF THE WEEK ***

FreeDevelopers-- a democratic entity for the development of free software -- the Free Software community ("FreeDevelopers") has issued a "Declaration of Software Freedom" and has formed a company ("The free company") which will be "owned and run by developers worldwide on a democratic basis in a sacred trust for the benefit and protection of the world's citizens." story

openH -- free H/W designs and free S/W for embedded systems -- openH.org is intended to be the hardware equivalent of SourceForge -- a free service for developers of Free Open Hardware designs with accompanying open source software. story

GPL Mwave Modem driver for Linux -- the Mwave Modem driver for Linux, developed by IBM, is now available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. The driver implements a soft-modem (WinModem) under Linux. story

the Familiar Project -- an open source Linux distro for PDAs -- the Familiar Project's Linux distribution for PDAs (previously known as a7r's wild and wacky images) is now available for the Compaq iPAQ PDA. The project adds a window manager, PIM applications, system utilities, and maintenance tools to the baseline handhelds.org kernel. story

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*** THE 2001 EMBEDDED LINUX MARKET SURVEY ***

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.

Note: Please participate in this new survey, even if you already did so in 2000. Thank you!

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