[aclug-L] FW: LinuxDevices.com Newsletter for July 3, 2003

["Michael Holmes" <aerospaced@xxxxxxx>]

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Mike

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          WELCOME TO THE LINUXDEVICES.COM WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
                             July 3, 2003
                 by Rick Lehrbaum -- Editor-in-chief

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SPECIAL REPORT:  CONSUMER ELECTRONICS GIANTS LAUNCH LINUX LEAGUE
The major manufacturers of consumer electronics equipment appear to
be adopting embedded Linux in a BIG way.  In a historic
announcement earlier this week, eight consumer electronics (CE)
powerhouses -- including Matsushita, Sony, Hitachi, NEC, Royal
Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sharp, and Toshiba -- proclaimed the
establishment of the CE Linux Forum (CELF).  The group issued a
statement outlining its initial mission, and posted membership
information on its website.  Our exclusive "special report" brings
you all the details including perspectives from around the web.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7193613683.html


MOTOROLA SOFTWARE UNIT AIMS LINUX AT MOBILE DEVICE MARKET
Motorola's Metrowerks software tools subsidiary threw its hat into
the smart handhelds OS ring, when it rolled out OpenPDA, a
"complete" software stack and associated tools for mobile devices
based on a combination of open source and proprietary software.
OpenPDA, which is already being used by Sharp in its latest Zaurus
PDAs, includes an embedded Linux OS, GUI framework, and Java
runtime environment, plus a full range of apps commonly found in
today's smart handheld devices.  Metrowerks is positioning OpenPDA
as a competitor to Palm, Pocket PC, Windows CE, and VxWorks.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3101511245.html


OSDL ADDS ANDREW MORTON, LINUX KERNEL MAINTAINER, TO ITS RESOURCES
The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) announced that Linux kernel
maintainer Andrew Morton will work for the lab under an agreement
between Digeo Inc. (Morton's employer) and OSDL. Morton will be
focused exclusively on the 2.6 kernel during its maintenance cycle,
the Lab said.  OSDL recently announced that Linus Torvalds, the
creator of Linux, has joined the lab as its first OSDL Fellow,
taking a leave from Transmeta Corporation, where he is currently
a Transmeta Fellow.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5459090567.html


NEW SCRIPTING LANGUAGE FOR QT-BASED APPS
According to Trolltech, Qt Script for Applications (QSA) leverages
the powerful Qt API, taking static Qt/C++ applications and making
them dynamic. Trolltech said QSA can be used to prototype changes
in already-compiled applications, write test scripts, customize
applications to specific requirements, script-enable applications
to allow power-users to add sophisticated macros, and provide
script-based fixes for previously released applications.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4860127940.html


JALUNA RELEASES EMBEDDED, REAL-TIME LINUX OS FAMILY
Jaluna announced a family of three Linux-based operating systems
aimed at the telecom and network infrastructure equipment market.
The products include:  an embedded Linux OS; a real-time OS based
on a combination of Linux plus a microkernel; and a real-time
multi-OS software platform based on the combination of several
instances of Linux along with a microkernel.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7182221744.html


OTHER NOTEWORTHY ITEMS FROM THE PAST WEEK . . .

*  MontaVista makes a CELF endorsement
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5499390735.html

*  Metrowerks rolls OpenPDA toolkit for Mot's DragonBall i.MX1
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7282636373.html

*  Embedded Linux supports multimedia-oriented Katana
    system-on-chip
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6155878340.html

*  PowerPC printer controller SOC comes with Linux BSP
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7376442855.html

*  Hitachi H8 processor gains uClinux support
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6432166122.html

*  "Access device" eval board gains MontaVista Linux support
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6734379749.html

*  Mono (open source version of .NET) project releases version 0.25
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6512695322.html

*  Seven technical articles from IBM -- Linux, Java, Wi-Fi, grid
    apps, and more
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3513020234.html


. . . and that's not all.  Check here for the latest breaking news:
               http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/


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

*  EMBEDDED LINUX INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW ("start here")
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*  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

*  LITTLE LINUX SYSTEMS FOR PROJECTS & PRODUCTS
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT201??6997232.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


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