Embedded Linux
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Linux on Playstation 3?
News Pop open the hood of the next-generation Sony Playstation or BMW sedan and you may well see Linux inside, said a member of a group promoting the open-source operating system.
Linux being bolstered for gadgets
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Mixed fortunes for embedded Linux
News Companies selling Linux for embedded devices take one step back and one forward as once-hot Embedix is acquired by Motorola and rival MontaVista gets $28 million from Toshiba.
MontaVista boasts one-second boot-up
News Embedded Linux vendor sets the next benchmark in the race to fast boot times, with its latest demonstration showing a system going from cold boot to "fully operational" in one second.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Linux Company, operating system, Environment, Dashboard, Embedded Linux, Linux, Open source, Web
Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor
News The company claims it will continue to support the Xen virtualization project, despite working on an alternative method that is integrated with the Linux kernel.
Tags: Virtualization, Business applications, Software, Linux, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Database, Novell Inc., Hypervisor, operating system
Asus to launch laptops with instant-on feature
News Five new laptops from Asus, announced at Computex Taipei, will include the Splashtop instant-on software for hitting the Web without loading Windows.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Web browsers, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, ASUS, Embedded Linux, software, Laptop Computer, Computex, Linux
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip.
Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Hypervisor, operating system, Wind River Systems Inc., device manufacturer, processor, Virtualization, car, multi-core processor
TomTom settlement leaves key questions unanswered
News Legal experts say it won't end the uncertainty over Microsoft's Linux patent claims. Open source luminary Bruce Perens warns of a chilling effect.
Tags: Patents, Open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., GPL, TomTom, attorney, Settlement
Linux gets standards for 'embedded' devices
News An industry consortium including Red Hat, MontaVista Software and IBM is trying to make it easier for companies to use the Linux operating system in cell phones, network routers and other devices.
Linux set for central role in 3G devices
News Texas Instruments plans to make its OMAP wireless platform Linux-friendly, meaning that 3G devices by Nokia, Ericsson, Sony and Sendo could use the open source operating system.
Motorola puts more money into embedded Linux
News Motorola has come back for seconds in the embedded Linux market, purchasing US$22.5 million in Lineo stock--but Lineo itself won't be seeing that funding.
Yamaha, NEC back Linux start-up
News MontaVista Software, a company specializing in use of Linux in embedded computing devices, has won an investment from Yahama and sold its software for use in a new video-recording computer.
Sun desktop software exec moving to Linux specialist
News Marketing chief for Sun's Desktop Solutions Group jumps ship to head marketing at MontaVista Software.
Linux firm MontaVista seeks new CEO
News Jim Ready, CEO of the embedded Linux specialist, will step down from his post to become chief technology officer.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Wind River warms to open-source groups
News Wind River Systems, an operating system specialist that decided to embrace Linux rather than fight it, announced Monday that it has joined two prominent open-source groups.
