Can Free Software be profitable? -- In this guest column at LinuxDevices.com, the CEO of Mind NV explains how Mind has successfully become profitable while remaining a pure free and open source software based embedded development company.  Story

Porting RTLinux to the MIPS 'Atlas' reference board -- This brief technical article summarizes a project of porting RTLinux to the MIPS Atlas board with MIPS 4Kc core, in an effort to develop a suitable real-time environment for system-on-chip based applications such as multimedia and VoIP gateways, routers, etc. As part of the project, the team measured the response time of the real-time interrupts and the scheduler, and compared it to that of the standard Linux kernel (the results are tabulated).  Story

Requiem for an ASIC -- In this guest column, RTC Magazine editor-in-chief Tom Williams notes that the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) has now been replaced by programmable logic devices such as the Field Programmable Logic Array (FPGA), why this has occurred, and some of the consequences of this trend are to embedded system development.  Story

Here are some additional news items and announcements of interest from the past week . . .

• Linux powers retail wireless handheld terminal
  
• BusyBox 0.60.4 released
  
• WindRiver vs. MontaVista on the merits of Embedded Linux
  
• Linus merges XFS into latest development kernel
  
• Linux RG firmware gains USB Remote NDIS support
  
• Program announced for Boston Embedded Systems Conference
  
• Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum October meeting agenda
  
• ELC to publish multivendor Embedded Linux product catalog
  
• MontaVista announces support for new IBM set-top box SOC
  
• LynxOS RTOS gains Open Sound System support
  
• MIPS-based SBC features Alchemy Au1500, Linux support
  
• Linux powers CompactPCI intelligent I/O controllers
  
• Linux drives telematics development platform
  
• EMJ Embedded releases White Dwarf Linux version 1.2.0
  
• World's first XScale-based PC/104 SBC?
  
• Objective-C: the More Flexible C++
  
• In-memory database supports Linux-based mission critical apps
  

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