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Opengear is shipping a uClinux-based console server designed for enterprises with unused Kernel-based Virtual Machine infrastructure. The KCS6000 KVM gateway console turns outdated rack-mounted keyboards and LCD screens into stations where users can remotely administer server equipment using an array of modern remote access protocols, Opengear says.According to Opengear, data centers and enterprise computer rooms […]

Access has announced a potentially enormous win in Japan for its Linux-based software stack for phones and other mobile devices. The deal could see the ALP (Access Linux Platform) serving as a common OS platform for NEC, Panasonic and Esteemo phones sold by NTT DoCoMo and other mobile carriers. As background, Japan’s top mobile provider […]

Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open-source mobile phone stack. The OHA (Open Handset Alliance) says phones based on its Linux-based “Android” stack will reach the market in as soon as eight months. /zimages/1/94222.jpg The Android stack is based on an “open Linux kernel,” the […]

Why did the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs decide to merge? Both groups have long shared the same ultimate goal—to accelerate the adoption of Linux—and have worked together in the past. Discussions about how the two groups could work together or join forces have been taking place for some time. Due to […]

Red Hat has launched a Telecommunications Partner program for NEPs (network equipment providers), OEMs, telecom ISVs (independent software vendors), and carriers/operators. The program will package existing and new Red Hat capabilities into an integrated platform aimed at giving Red Hat a bigger role in the build-out of next-generation telecom services. Red Hats embedded strategy has […]

A “hybrid” music entertainment company with several revenue models says it is shipping its first portable media player. Titan Global Entertainments “Omni” PMP runs Linux, has a 4.3-inch QVGA display, and offers standard media recording and playback features, according to the company. Titan says its a very fast-growing company specializing in artist management, record production […]

As predicted, the open-source community has come up with a way to convert VxWorks-based Linksys wireless WRT54G routers to Linux. The process does not require hardware hacking and installs a recent version of “DD-WRT micro.” A version of Linux that supports the VxWorks-based “series 5” WRT54G has been available since April, when the DD-WRT project […]

Silicon Valley startup a la Mobile plans to ship in September the industrys first “complete” Linux-based smart phone operating system. The Convergent Linux Platform, or CLP, which aims to streamline Linux phone rollouts by ODMs, OEMs and operators, will enter a field crowded with alternatives from MontaVista, Trolltech, ACCESS/PalmSource and Wind River, among others. Founder […]

Four large mobile phone vendors, together with two major wireless operators, will create an open Linux implementation for mobile phones. Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone say their Linux implementation will provide a global standard, and prevent the “fragmentation” of mobile phone Linux. Most of the companies involved already have considerable experience implementing […]

After 12 years in business, Trolltech on May 23 filed an application for listing on the OSE (Oslo Stock Exchange). The OSE reports receiving the application the following day, and says Trolltech is now subject to disclosure of information requirements. IPO rumors sprang up around Trolltech last fall, when the company hired Juha Christensen and […]