Device Profile: snom 100 VoIP phone -- This LinuxDevices.com "Device Profile" takes a look at a new VoIP phone with a Linux kernel embedded inside, from a company in Germany. The snom 100 VoIP phone supports various open telephony standards including SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and H.323/H.450, as well as data protocols like HTTP, TAPI, and LDAP. Software to support the IAX (Inter Asterisk eXchange) VoIP protocol is also available, allowing the snom 100 to run in Asterisk mode. Support for all these protocols makes the device compatible with virtually all standards-based VoIP gateways and gatekeepers, and easy to integrate into existing LAN/WAN environments. Story
Device Profile: Rio Central digital audio center -- LinuxDevices.com profiles yet another leading-edge digital audio device that makes use of Linux as its embedded operating system -- the Rio Central digital audio center. SONICblue's Rio Central is a high-fidelity home stereo component that stores up to 650 CDs (or 6,500 individual songs) on its built-in 40GB hard drive. SONICblue describes the Rio Central as being "As simple to use as a CD player, but as smart as a PC" -- a Linux-based PC, that is! The article describes the device and its functions, briefly outlines the system's embedded computer hardware and software, and explores the reasons why SONICblue used Embedded Linux. Photos too! Story
Time, Tide, and Standard Embedded Linux -- Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief of RTC Magazine, weighs in with a perspective on the Embedded Linux Consortium's embedded Linux "platform standard" -- and on the future of the embedded Linux market. Williams' editorial initially appeared in the April 2002 edition of RTC Magazine. Story
Embedded Linux Journal announces NIC contest winners -- The Embedded Linux Journal has announced the winners of their second annual design contest, which was based on projects using the New Internet Computer (NIC) as a platform. From twenty finalists selected last August who were sent NICs and later submitted their results, one winner and two runners-up have now been selected. The grand prize winner receives an all-expense-paid trip to Costa Rica, and the two runners-up each receive a Lego Mindstorms package. Find out who won, and what their projects are about. Story
VDC Whitepaper: Linux's future in the embedded systems market -- Linux's Future in the Embedded Systems Market is an analysis by Venture Development Corp. (VDC) of the current size and future growth of the worldwide market for embedded Linux software solutions. This whitepaper by VDC industry analysts Chris Lanfear and Stephen Balacco provides a brief summary of the findings of the study. Story
Update on IBM/Citizen Linux WatchPad -- Rick Lehrbaum visited IBM's developerWorks Live conference in San Francisco this week, where he saw the IBM/Citizen Linux-powered WatchPad scan fingerprints, track motion, control external devices wirelessly, and . . . well . . . tell time. He also tried the device on for size. "The WatchPad is actually a lot larger than what I expected," noted Lehrbaum. "It makes quite a fashion statement -- perfect for those geek-intensive social events in Silicon Valley." Photos included! Story
VOCAL: Open Source VoIP Software for Linux -- While most Open Source projects are applications and utilities intended for single users, David Bryan and David Kelly did something different. They created an infrastructure project -- a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone system that either can run on a single box attached to a couple of IP phones or can scale up to a network of hosts processing hundreds of calls between thousands of users. In this informative technical article at ELJonline, Bryan and Kelly detail the "Vovida Open Communications Applications Library" ("VOCAL") project, a fully functional phone system that can run on either Red Hat Linux or Sun Solaris. Story
VDC report: Linux gearing up for improved real-time support -- The question of whether and how Linux can be adapted to satisfy the requirements of real-time application demands continues to gain increased attention, according to a recent survey conducted by Venture Development Corp. (VDC). Based on the study, VDC expects that real-time solutions for Linux will accelerate the broad adoption of Linux in embedded designs. Story
Update: Real-time Linux sub-kernels, benchmarks, contention -- And speaking of real-time, the debate sparked by Kevin Dankwardt's recent Embedded Linux Journal article on Real-time Linux continues to rage on. First, MontaVista Software's Kevin Morgan issued a response to Dankwardt's article in which he offered "a few clarifications (or points of view)". Next, Victor Yodaiken and Matt Sherer (of FSMLabs) reacted to Kevin Morgan's response to Dankwardt's article, taking exception to Morgan's assertion that RTLinux is "not appropriate for the placement of comprehensive applications". Then, Kevin Morgan (of MontaVista) clarified the status of MontaVista's kernel preemption enhancements and responded to several other issues raised in Yodaiken and Sherer's earlier comments. In the latest round, Karim Yaghmour provides the RTAI point-of-view -- drawing attention to the nature of the API, the usability of the methods, and distinctions in the overall openness of the specific approaches that are being compared. Story
Here are some additional news items and announcements of interest from the past week . . .
Read them here: May 9, 2002, May 2, 2002, Apr. 25, 2002, Apr. 18, 2002, 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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