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the LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter
July 27, 2000
by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor, ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com
IBM announces massive Linux investment in Europe -- IBM plans to invest more than $200 million over the next several years, to create Linux development centers across Europe, develop alliances with Linux-focused business partners, and deploy about 600 specialized Linux consultants, hardware and software specialists, and services professionals. story
*** SPECIAL FEATURE ***
"What is Linux?" -- Rick Lehrbaum interviewed eight Linux and open source luminaries, to put together this embedded market perspective on issues surrounding the question, "What is Linux?". Is Linux a complete operating system? Is Linux "the Linux kernel"? Is Linux a technology? Is Linux defined by its APIs and ABIs? When does a modified kernel cease to be Linux? story
Red Hat GPLs Source-Navigator IDE -- Red Hat underlined its commitment to Open Source software by releasing several development tools under GPL. The tools include Source-Navigator, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and Insight, a graphical debugger. story
RTAI 24.1.0 adds PowerPPC and Linux kernel 2.4 real-time support -- the RTAI development team announced the beta release of RTAI version 24.1.0. Source code for RTAI is freely available for download. story
Linux driver supports USB-to-Ethernet controllers -- Scyld Computing has released a GPL Linux driver for a USB-to-Ethernet adapter made by CATC. The driver supports several chip-level USB-to-Ethernet controllers. story
Call for Papers: 2nd Embedded Linux Expo & Conference -- the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) announced the call for papers for the Boston area conference to be held this October. Abstracts are due by August 11. story
Korean Embedded Linux firm attracts $6M investment -- Palm Palm Technology recently developed Tynux, an Embedded Linux distribution targeting the mobile device market including wireless Internet access terminals and cellular phones. story
PC-Doctor adds diagnostics for Linux-based systems -- the company says its product provides, among other things, "an enterprise-strength and structured diagnostic environment" for embedded Linux applications. story
Axis to proactively develop Bluetooth standards -- Axis, a pioneer in embedding Linux in smart appliances and one of 37 founding members of the BlueTooth SIG, intends to invest in efforts to advance the development of emerging Bluetooth standards. story
Using serial LCDs in embedded Linux systems -- not all systems need large graphic displays. An article at linuxfocus.org explains how to interface low cost, small sized, low power serial LCD displays to embedded Linux based systems. story
*** LINKS OF THE WEEK ***
voxilla.org -- telecommunications modules for Linux -- the project goal is a complete set of Open Source Linux based telecommunications modules. storyThe OpenPhone Project -- an open-source effort to build a common Internet Telephony application that can be used across all platforms. This app will be aimed at client devices using easily available low-density telephony hardware. story
TinyLogin embeddable utility suite -- a suite of tiny utilities for handling logging into, being authenticated by, changing one's password for, and otherwise maintaining users and groups on an embedded Linux system. story
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