LinuxDevices.com Newsletter for Nov. 21, 2002

      WELCOME TO LINUXDEVICES.COM'S EMBEDDED LINUX NEWSLETTER 
                          November 21, 2002
                by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor

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     http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/newsbriefs/nov21-02.html


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MOTOROLA SUBSIDIARY METROWERKS TO ACQUIRE LINEO?
Rumors have surfaced of an impending acquisition of Lineo (aka
Embedix Inc.) by Motorola's Metrowerks software tools subsidiary. 
Metrowerks is well known for its popular CodeWarrior integrated
development environment (IDE), which is used for embedded system
software development.  Lineo and Metrowerks have had a long standing
strategic partnership including a $22.5 million investment by
Metrowerks in Lineo in September 2000.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4191549390.html


PLEASE VOTE:  IN THE FALL 2002 EMBEDDED LINUX MARKET SURVEY
LinuxDevices.com requests its readers and everyone else interested
in embedded software to participate in the Fall 2002 Embedded Linux
Market Survey. By answering these questions, you will help build a
composite profile of the Embedded Linux market.  Note: This is a new
survey conducted in Q4 of 2002 -- please participate even if you
participated in our previous surveys. LinuxDevices.com will publish
the results following the conclusion of the survey period.  The
information is gathered anonymously.  Thank you for your
participation!
http://www.linuxdevices.com/cgi-bin/survey/survey.cgi?id=1114200218333


1ST MULTIVENDOR EMBEDDED LINUX STANDARD NEARS RELEASE
The Embedded Linux Consortium's board of directors has started the
clock on final review of version 1.0 of the ELC Platform
Specification, according to an announcement sent to the ELC's
members. The draft spec was completed by the platform spec working
group in late October, triggering a 45-day review period that will
culminate in a vote cycle authorizing public distribution of the
world's first Embedded Linux standard.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7949968550.html


UCLINUX AND LINUX HEADED FOR UNITY
Mainstream Linux is about to gain the ability to go much more deeply
embedded without the need for specialized toolchains.  Earlier this
month, Linus Torvalds announced inclusions for revision 2.5.46 of
the Linux kernel incorporating a number of uClinux patches.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6428036597.html


SHARP UNVEILS "WORLD'S FIRST VGA RESOLUTION PDA"
Sharp unveiled what it calls "the world's first PDA with a
full-color VGA-resolution (640x480 pixel) LCD display" into the
Japanese market.  The SL-C700 also provides a built-in QWERTY
keyboard similar to that of a normal notebook keyboard (although
smaller).  Check out this LinuxDevices.com 'device preview' which
provides an overview of this unique new Linux PDA, photos, and a
list of its key features and specs.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5295837592.html


EMBEDDED LINUX POWERS NEW NEC HOME AUDIO/VIDEO SERVER
NEC has selected MontaVista Linux as the embedded operating system
within a new home audio/video server. The NEC AX10 home server is a
disk-based recorder for audio-visual applications and is one of the
"new style" of products developed by NEC as part of its personal
computer line.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6634855442.html


GUESS WHO'S NOW #1 IN "SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS"?
Believe it or not, if you do a search on Google using the expression
"single board computers" (in quotes, as shown), the top result
returned among over 35,000 results is none other than . . .
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3356671701.html


EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE KICKS OFF IN BOSTON
The 10th annual Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston took place
this week in the Boston, MA. The east coast's premier educational
forum for engineers and engineering managers developing embedded
systems was expected to attract more than 4,000 attendees as well as
160 exhibitors.  ESC Boston, incidentally, is why there are so many
additional news items and announcements listed in the next section
of this week's newsletter.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8368369976.html


OTHER NOTEWORTHY NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PAST WEEK . . .

*  MontaVista rolls out Vers 3.0 embedded Linux OS, toolkit
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3554044939.html

*  GNU tools, Linux to gain ARM9 on-chip debug tools support
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4413614582.html

*  Collaboration turns Linux devices into mobile terminals  
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2414836531.html

*  Embedded Linux SDK supports CompactPCI control plane processor
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8179151868.html

*  Ampro adds Embedded Linux support to MIPS32 SBC module
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7704943929.html

*  Prominent New England system integrator adds Embedded Linux
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3027263429.html

*  Review of the Simputer by Scientific American
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5654175568.html

*  MontaVista adds DVD player app to Embedded Linux options
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5406131656.html

*  Remote desktop control app supports mobile Linux devices
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5267269042.html

*  MS co-founder Paul Allen's Digeo to launch Linux-based PVR
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3743431680.html

*  Embedded Linux and the Law
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4483498660.html

*  RTLinuxFree 3.2-pre1 (free version of RTCore) released
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3401831916.html

*  SDK supports NAND Flash, MLC NAND Flash, Linux
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5574198554.html

*  MontaVista adds IBM PowerNP C compiler to toolset
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9413715615.html

*  Wasabi squeezes NetBSD into Xilinx FPGA
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2101627371.html

*  LynuxOS RTOS adds ARM, XScale processor architectures
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9434043504.html

*  McObject adds XML support to in-memory database
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5122146485.html

*  New Pentium III PC/104-Plus SBC = world's fastest?
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3760681383.html

*  IBM and Sharp create 'Enterprise Edition Zaurus'
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7038193921.html

*  Tutorial:  clustering basics
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2697813263.html

*  Open Mobile Alliance unveils specs, industry forum consolidation 
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4413572607.html


______ * * * FREQUENTLY UPDATED QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES * * * _____

*  EMBEDDED LINUX INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW ("start here")
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9888936014.html

*  EMBEDDED LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2760742655.html

*  REAL-TIME LINUX
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8073314981.html

*  EMBEDDED LINUX GUI/WINDOWING SOFTWARE
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9202043619.html

*  JAVA TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMBEDDED LINUX SYSTEMS
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8918758707.html

*  LINUX-FRIENDLY SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PROCESSORS
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4313418436.html

*  LINUX-FRIENDLY EMBEDDED SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2614444132.html

*  LITTLE LINUX SYSTEMS FOR PROJECTS & PRODUCTS
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2016997232.html

*  EMBEDDED LINUX "COOL DEVICES"
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4936596231.html

*  LINUX-BASED PDAs
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html

*  EMBEDDED LINUX MARKET
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5991623822.html


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