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Tiny hard drive gains Guinness World Record as smallest HDD —
Mar. 17, 2004 —
 Toshiba announced this week that Guinness World Records has certified its 0.85-inch hard disk drive (HDD) as the smallest HDD in the world, and will feature it in the 2005 edition, scheduled to be on sale in September 2004. The Guinness World Records Book is one ...
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Embedded Linux at CES —
Mar. 17, 2004 —
Linux Journal has published an extensive report by Doc Searls from the floor of January's enormous Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Entitled "Hunting Penguins in the Desert," the article discusses Linux's relatively low profile in corporate marketing literature at the show. ...
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Survey reveals embedded Linux market trends —
Mar. 17, 2004 —
 The results of LinuxDevices.com's fourth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey are in! Overall, we find the results encouraging for embedded Linux as a whole, and for companies in the embedded Linux OS and tools market. ...
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Cross-platform driver dev kit supports Linux kernel 2.6 —
Mar. 17, 2004 —
Jungo has added support for Linux kernel 2.6 and other new features to its WinDriver cross-platform driver development kit. WinDriver lets programmers write user space drivers that are source compatible across a number of platforms, the company claims. ...
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Linux leads point-of-sale OS growth, but faces obstacles —
Mar. 17, 2004 —
Linux was the fastest growing operating system in the point-of-sale (POS) terminal market in 2003, according to a study by IHL Consulting Group. However, Linux's market share is still quite small, and adoption has slowed since Microsoft released Windows XP Embedded (XPe) launched on Nov. 28, 2001, IHL says. ...
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Linux finds new world to dominate: batch data collection terminals —
Mar. 16, 2004 —
 Handheld specialist Intermec plans to ship what it believes to be the first low-cost batch data collection terminal based on Linux. The ruggedized "CK1" key-entry handheld runs a 2.4 uClinux kernel, supports off-the-shelf use as barcode scanner and linear imager, and is extensible through several application ...
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Open source CVS alternative achieves stable release —
Mar. 16, 2004 —
Collaborative tools and consulting firm CollabNet says the BSD-licensed version control system it has sponsored for three years has achieved a stable release. Subversion 1.0 is intended as an enterprise-ready replacement for CVS (Concurrent Versions System) that, when combined with "CollabNet environment" tools, creates a fully-functional Software Configuration Management System ...
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MontaVista signs Nordic, Oz distributors —
Mar. 15, 2004 —
MontaVista Software has announced two new distribution partnerships that will expand its channel in the South Pacific and Nordic regions. Melbourne-based Madisent will sell and support Montavista products in Australia and New Zealand, while Nohau Elektronik AB of Malmö, Sweden will cover Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. ...
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LynuxWorks to announce Eclipse-based embedded Linux dev tools —
Mar. 15, 2004 —
LynuxWorks will unveil Eclipse-based tools for embedded Linux development at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) next week in San Francisco. The company will also demonstrate Linux-based point-of-sale technology developed for a gas station and convenience store, and other embedded Linux technologies. ...
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Minimo ("mini Mozilla") project leaders interviewed —
Mar. 11, 2004 —
New Mobile Computing (NMC) has published an interview with Doug Turner and Chris Hofmann, leaders of the Minimo project, discussing the motivations, goals, and status of the effort to create an embeddable Web browser for Linux devices based on Mozilla's "gecko" rendering engine. ...
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MIPS-based core to run Linux, Java byte code in parallel —
Mar. 11, 2004 —
/k/ Embedded Java Solutions (prounounced "kah") and Quest Innovations B.V. will partner to develop a MIPS-based 32-bit CPU core that will run Linux software in parallel with a hardware execution engine for Java byte codes. The device will target low-cost Java-enabled embedded devices. ...
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Migrating Linux apps to the 2.6 kernel and NPTL —
Mar. 11, 2004 —
For most application developers, changes between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel families have little direct impact. However, kernel and system changes affecting how applications spawn and manage other processes and threads are a significant exception. This whitepaper by TimeSys Distinguished Engineer Peter Dibble and Product Manager William von Hagen discusses ...
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Open source biz conference announces VC speaker list —
Mar. 11, 2004 —
The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2004 has announced its final line up of venture capital (VC) and investment speakers for the March 16 and 17 conference being held at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square in San Francisco. VC speakers will include Kevin Harvey, general partner at Benchmark ...
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Linux 2.6 OS/tools support Mot PowerPC telecom processor —
Mar. 11, 2004 —
TimeSys has released a "Linux Development Kit" (LDK) based on Linux 2.6 for Motorola's MPC8260 PowerPC processor. The LDK includes the Eclipse-powered TimeStorm Integrated Development Environment (IDE), cross-platform GNU toolchain, device drivers, embedded Linux distribution based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, and user documentation. ...
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Open source for capitalists —
Mar. 10, 2004 —
This essay by Matt Asay explains why he and others organized the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), set to take place March 16-17 at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square in San Francisco. Asay, a former student of Lawrence Lessig at Stanford, and a former general manager at Lineo, ...
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National Instruments adds motion control Linux driver support —
Mar. 10, 2004 —
Virtual instrumentation specialist National Instruments has developed commercial Linux drivers for its motion controllers, and has added Linux support to its Motion Hardware Driver Development Kit for those wishing to develop their own drivers. ...
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Qt GUI test framework preview available for download —
Mar. 10, 2004 —
Froglogic is offering previews of Squish 1.1, expected to ship "in about one month." Squish is a cross-platform automated GUI testing framework for applications written using Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit. Squish 1.1 adds Python support, a "Squish Spy" for object properties and methods inspection, a test script debugger, ...
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Motorola licenses third-party USB network stack for Linux phones —
Mar. 09, 2004 —
Motorola has licensed Belcarra's USBLAN networking technology for use in its Linux- and Java-based smartphones, Belcarra reports. USBLAN will enable Motorola's "mobile-PDA-MP3-embedded camera phones" to network with desktop computers running a variety of operating systems, according to Belcarra. ...
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Linux 2.6 BSP turns Mac G5 into PowerPC 970 dev tool —
Mar. 09, 2004 —
LynuxWorks has released what it claims is the first Linux 2.6 board support package (BSP) for the Apple Macintosh G5 desktop machine. LynuxWorks says embedded Linux developers may wish to use the Apple G5 as a less expensive and more complete alternative to development boards based on IBM's ...
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Motorola readies music-oriented Linux mobile phone —
Mar. 09, 2004 —
 Motorola has announced several new multimedia-enabled mobile phones supporting music and video playback, including one new device based on embedded Linux. The Linux-based Motorola E680 could see US distribution, making it the first of Motorola's Linux-based mobile phones available outside the Far East. ...
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Browser for mobile Linux devices supports DHTML —
Mar. 09, 2004 —
Opera Software has announced that the "Smartphones and PDAs" edition of its Opera 7 browser, which has now started to appear in commercial products, shares extensive code with the desktop edition, including support for Dynamic HTML (DHTML), in order to better support both ...
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Introducing Possio's programmable Linux-based wireless router —
Mar. 09, 2004 —
 The Possio PX30 is a programmable Linux-based wireless router featuring WLAN, Bluetooth, OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative), and Java support. It is an open platform supported by a "Developer Zone" website, and it targets OSGi-enabled network edge devices that integrate diverse kinds of ...
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Linux poised to dominate set-top box market —
Mar. 09, 2004 —
Global research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics says Microsoft needs to quickly implement a more competitive licensing scheme if it wants to compete with Linux in the advanced set-top box (STB) market, expected to reach 40 million installed units worldwide by ...
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Tiny yet powerful SBC runs embedded Linux —
Mar. 08, 2004 —
 VMEbus and CompactPCI specialist General Micro Systems (GMS) has released a single-board computer (SBC) that supports Linux and measures just 2.8 x 1.9 inches. GMS says its "Spider" SBC is based on an IBM PowerPC chip running either 400 or 800 MHz, and targets distributed control, ...
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PCI dev board for FPGAs gains Linux RTOS —
Mar. 08, 2004 —
 Amirix has ported TimeSys's Linux RTOS software development kit (SDK) to its AP100 Virtex-II Pro PCI Platform FPGA development doards. The TimeSys Linux RTOS SDK is the first Linux OS available for the AP100, and targets networking, communications, DSP, image processing, industrial controls, and instrumentation. ...
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