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LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter
July 6, 2000
by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor, ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com
MiniGUI project founder joins Bluepoint Linux R&D Center -- Bluepoint Linux established a new R&D center in China's "Silicon Valley" which will specialize in embedded Linux development. story
"Instant Internet appliance" board-set -- a Taiwanese company introduced a PC board-set that automates the development of a variety of network/Internet device applications. story
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MontaVista mounts rescue mission for pSOS users -- MontaVista announced a a transition kit that helps developers convert pSOS applications to embedded Linux. story
Intel ignores Windows with iMac-like Dot.Station -- the newly announced Intel Dot.Station features an iMac-like desktop and uses Red Hat Linux -- rather than Windows -- as its software platform. story
When opposites attract (GNOME and KDE) -- there's a growing dialog between developers of two most popular (and competing) Linux. story
Transmeta and Linux to run the future home -- Gateway executives comment about their collaboration with AOL to produce a family of Crusoe-based home networked appliances. story
Spyglass ports Device Mosaic 4.0 to Linux, for TiVo -- Spyglass announced that it has licensed Device Mosaic 4.0 for TiVo's new Linux-based "Personal TV" products. story
Compact ARM7TDMI based networked SBC embeds Linux -- a Japanese boardmaker announced a tiny Linux based single-board computer for embedded applications. story
Trustix Secure Linux 1.1 -- a new release of this server-oriented distribution adds features like database support, enhanced mail filtering, a text-based web-browser, and server maintenance utilities. story
New PC-compatible system-on-chip features fail-safe boot -- ZF Linux Devices, Inc. announced a low power X86-compatible PC-on-a-Chip with fail-safe boot technology that comes with embedded Linux. story
Rebel.com selects Crusoe for Linux based gateway products -- Transmeta's Crusoe will be used in a future line of Linux-based residential and small business gateways. story
Lineo extends embedded Linux support for ARM cores -- ARM support is now available in both Embedix Linux and Embedix uClinux, thereby covering embedded systems with and without MMUs. story
PowerPC and embedded Linux ride the PC/104-Plus range -- Cowboy Industries has created a PowerPC-based single-board computer on a PC/104-Plus form-factor. The tiny SBC will be supported under embedded Linux. story
Lineo announces web site for open source contributions -- a new website collects, in one place, information and downloads relating to open source projects funded or maintained by Lineo and its employees. story
Centura announces embeddable open-source database -- Centura Software announced a secure, high-performance ultra-small footprint open source database solution for embedded and mobile devices, called db.star. story
Lineo offers a bridge to Linux from VxWorks, pSOS -- Lineo now offers compatibility libraries, code-named "Golden Gate", that offer developers an easy way to convert VxWorks and pSOS programs into Embedix Linux programs. story
Hard Hat Linux hits the masses (of developers) -- 138,000 copies of MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux CD were included inside the June EDN Magazine, which featured a cover story titled "Linux strafes the embedded landscape" story
ZipSpeak 7.1-1 enables talking Linux systems -- the latest version of this talking Linux adds support for several speech synthesizers, simplifies customization, simplifies Web browsing, and adds international keyboard support. story
Neoware demo's NeoLinux 2.0 at PC Expo -- version 2 adds new features that target information appliance and embedded applications. story
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