A developer's review of Red Hat's Embedded Linux Developer Suite -- This article is the third in LinuxDevices.com's series of reviews, by software developer Jerry Epplin, of Embedded Linux toolkits. In this installment, Epplin takes a close-up look at Red Hat's recently announced Embedded Linux Developer Suite. Story

In case you missed last week's newsletter due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the top story was . . .

New website launches Desktop Linux revolution -- DeviceForge LLC, the parent of LinuxDevices.com, is pleased to announce a new family member: DesktopLinux.com -- a major new website exclusively devoted to the use of Linux as a desktop operating system for personal and business purposes. The site features news, opinions, HOWTOs, FAQs, product previews/reviews, product listings, a discussion forum, and links to other web resources, all focused on using -- or learning to use -- Linux as a desktop operating system. Story

Bokks demonstrates Linux-based portable media-player -- For a number of years there has been a big buzz about the convergence of Internet and TV. A newly developed portable broadband box from Blokks AB, initially demoed at CeBIT last March, may be one of the first such products to hit the market. The device, which runs on Embedded Linux, is currently being demonstrated by its maker (in Lund, Sweden), and is expected to hit the market early in 2002. This news item provides details of the hardware and software, including photos, and answers the question "Why Linux?" Story

Embedded Linux powers Australian sports wagering device -- SnapGear, Inc. has announced the development of a Linux-based secure embedded appliance for sports and race wagering and fixed-odds sports betting over the Internet and telephone in Australia. This news item includes further details including a look at the innards of the device. Story

Linux kernel 2.5 development has begun -- Development of the next major step of the Linux kernel, version 2.5, has now officially been launched. Story

"Thanks" for "Giving" us games for Linux PDAs -- Thanksgiving day was a good day for Linux-based PDAs. Not one, but two different id Software classics have been ported to not one, but two different Linux-based PDAs. Story

Additional news items and announcements of interest . . .

• Linux kernel gains integrated SCSI RAID driver
  
• Torvalds: Linux still suffering growing pains
  
• Linux VoIP protocol stack supports VoP processors
  
• Opera 6.0 for Linux "technology preview" now available
  
• An interview with OpenBSD creator & maintainer, Theo de Raadt
  

• Article talkbacks
  
• Linux on PDAs
  
• Embedded Linux Q&A
  
• Real-time Linux
  
• GPL issues & discussion
  
• Embedded Java+Linux
  
• Little Linux systems
  
• Defenestrating Windows
  
• General discussion
  

• Introduction & Overview ("start here")
  
• Embedded Linux Distributions
  
• Real-time Linux
  
• GUI/Windowing Software
  
• Java on Embedded Linux
  
• System-on-Chip Processors
  
• Single Board Computers
  
• Little Linux Systems
  
• Linux-Based "Cool Devices"
  
• Linux-PDAs and PDA-Linux
  

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.

No problem!   Read them here:   Nov. 22, 2001,   Nov. 15, 2001,   Nov. 8, 2001,   Nov. 1, 2001,   Oct. 25, 2001,   Oct. 18, 2001,   Oct. 11, 2001,   Oct. 4, 2001,   Sep. 27, 2001,   Sep. 20, 2001,   Sep. 13, 2001,   Sep. 6, 2001

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