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From:	 LinuxDevices.com <newsletter@linuxdevices.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Embedded Linux Newsletter for May 30, 2002
Date:	 Wed, 29 May 2002 18:24:05 -0700

      WELCOME TO THE LINUXDEVICES.COM EMBEDDED LINUX NEWSLETTER 
                             May 30, 2002
       by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor, LinuxDevices.com
  
                        (online html version)
     http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/newsbriefs/may30-02.html


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_____________________ * * * TOP STORIES * * * ____________________


THE BUSINESS OF EMBEDDED LINUX
In this opinion column at LinuxDevices.com, Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols offers a perspective on the business side of the
Embedded Linux Market.  Vaughan-Nichols sees 'consolidation' in his
crystal ball. Who will win?  Who will lose? 
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4647927931.html


MEET DRAGONIX, AN 'OPEN HARDWARE' LINUX SBC
There's a new Embedded Linux kid in town, and his name is the
"Dragonix".  What's Dragonix? It's an "Open Hardware" single-board
computer (SBC), based on a Motorola Dragonball 68VZ328 processor,
that runs uClinux.  The Dragonix project has already spawned a
series of add-on boards that make it easy to build things like
firewalls, MP3 players, and home automation apps around the Dragonix
SBC.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7265702232.html


BOEL, PART 2: KERNEL CONFIGURATION AND BOOTING
This is Part 2 of an ELJonline technical series about Brian's Own
Embedded Linux ("BOEL"), a small embeddable Linux distribution that
can boot from disk, CDROM, or the Net.  Brian Finley developed BOEL
as part of a project to create a tool for distributing live updates
to client systems, which required that the client machines be booted
in such a manner that their hard disks were not in use so that they
would be available for  manipulation.  Much of the focus is on
creating a system as small as possible -- the complete BOEL system
must fit on a single 1.44MB floppy.  The first article showed how to
create an initrd and discussed issues such as libraries, shells,
filesystems, and inodes; in this installment, Finley covers the
kernel configuration and boot process.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5974781081.html


A TIMESYS PERSPECTIVE ON THE LINUX PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL
This whitepaper by Dr. Doug Locke, Vice President of Technology at
TimeSys Corp., explores the changes recently made to the mainstream
Linux development kernel to improve its preemptibility, discusses
the implications of these changes relative to embedded and real-time
applications, and contrasts the recently adopted approach with that
used in TimeSys Linux GPL.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6106723802.html


LINUX VENDORS TO UNIFY EFFORTS
This article from ZDNet reports that SuSE, Caldera, and Turbolinux
will announce an effort to combat the fragmentation of the Linux
operating system as well as to counter the dominant market share of 
Red Hat. The initiative will reportedly involve creating a jointly
standardized Linux distribution.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8371471674.html


LinuxDevices.com's headline feed adds options
The LinuxDevices.com news headline feed makes it easy for you to
offer Embedded Linux daily news headlines on your personal or
corporate website. Everyone is encouraged to carry our headlines, in
order to help proliferate awareness of -- and use of -- Embedded
Linux. (Note: Another use of the headline feed is as a 'lightweight'
news page for handheld PCs.)  Our headline feeds are offered in
three formats -- text, html, and rdf (rss).  Plus, there are now
multiple implementations of each, which offer the latest 5, 10, and
25 headlines respectively.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/backend/index.html


____________ * * * OTHER NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS * * * ____________

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

*  Embedded Market Accepts Linux
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4359828933.html

*  Lineo rolls out upgrade to Embedix SDK
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2909713512.html

*  Linux kernel gets built-in Bluetooth support
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3726564209.html

*  MontaVista Software among Upside's 'Hot 100'
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2640980688.html

*  The Sharp Zaurus -- A Lovely Little Computer
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8467908950.html

*  Interview with PS2 Linux developers
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7295509312.html

*  New ten-cubic-inch 'Mobile Computer Core' will run Linux
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4877788546.html

*  Intel announces 'Modular Platform Design Guide' for comms
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5921646796.html

*  Updated 'mini-howto' on Building TinyX for Handhelds
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9635690404.html

*  Alternative address book for Zaurus Linux PDA
   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8841044451.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


____________________* * * BACK ISSUES * * * ____________________

Missed a previous LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Newsletter?
No problem!  Here are back issues for the past month . . . 

  http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/newsbriefs/may23-02.html
  http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/newsbriefs/may16-02.html
  http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/newsbriefs/may09-02.html
  http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/newsbriefs/may02-02.html


______________ * * * VISIT LINUXDEVICES.COM * * * _______________

Be sure to stop by LinuxDevices.com (http://www.linuxdevices.com)
-- "the Embedded Linux Portal" -- for the latest news, articles,
forums, companies, products, jobs, and buzz in the fast-moving 
"post-PC" world of Linux-based intelligent devices, Internet 
appliances, and embedded systems.


_________ * * * QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS? * * * _________

     You can reach Rick Lehrbaum at:  rick@linuxdevices.com
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