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The day when Wi-Fi cards “just work” under Linux may be fast approaching. Wi-Fi software stack specialist Devicescape has released its “Advanced Datapath” 802.11 driver stack to the open-source community under the GPL, and the Linux kernel developer community appears to be working to adapt it for mainline inclusion. The Devicescape Wi-Fi stack was previously […]

This guest column by Wasabi Vice President and General Counsel Jay Michaelson responds to a reaction from Free Software Foundation General Counsel Eben Moglen to a Wasabi whitepaper that discussed potential interactions between Sarbanes-Oxley Act legislation and the GNU General Public License. Wasabi is best-known for BSD-based embedded operating system stacks licensed under the BSD […]

iRobot used embedded Linux to build an autonomous UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) aimed at military scouting, guarding, and hauling applications. The “R-Gator” is based on John Deeres diesel-powered, 658cc M-Gator military utility vehicle platform, with control, navigation, and object-avoidance systems based on BlueCat Linux from LynuxWorks. iRobot describes R-Gator as “an intelligent UGV that can […]

Welcome to Round Four of the ultimate showdown between Linux and Windows in the arena of embedded and device computing! After three heated but inconclusive rounds, our combatants are pulling no punches in their all-out quest to dominate the hottest consumer electronics and industrial computing markets. Our smack-down aims to set aside the marketing hype […]

LinuxDevices recently caught up with OSDL spokesperson Bill Weinberg to discuss the organizations new MLI (Mobile Linux Initiative). Weinberg, who serves as the OSDLs representative to the MLI, filled us in on the initiatives early progress, strategy, and tactics for the year ahead. Can you bring us up to speed on what the MLI (Mobile […]

Eleven companies Monday launched a cross-industry consortium chartered to turn embedded Linux into a plug-and-play mobile phone platform comparable to Microsoft Corp.s Windows Mobile Smartphone OS, but with greater flexibility and lower costs. The LiPS (Linux Phone Standard) Forum intends to help make Linux a more standardized, interoperable mobile phone OS. Compared to commercial mobile […]

The OSDL on Monday launched the Mobile Linux Initiative, an effort to accelerate adoption of Linux in mobile phones–one of the fastest growing consumer device segments. Linux is already among the top three OSes in “converged” mobile phones, according to industry analysts, and has shipped in Motorola handsets since 2003. The OSDL (Open Source Development […]

An R&D affiliate of the worlds largest telephone company has achieved a stable release of a new Linux filesystem said to improve reliability over conventional Linux filesystems, and offer performance advantages over Solariss UFS filesystem. NILFS 1.0 (new implementation of a log-structured filesystem) is available now from NTT Labs (Nippon Telegraph and Telephones Cyber Space […]

Mobile browser-maker Access Co. announced Friday that it will acquire Palm OS developer PalmSource in an all-cash transaction for approximately $324 million. The acquisition adds operating system platform expertise and Linux development resources to Accesss existing mobile device-oriented “content delivery and Internet access software,” the companies said. Widely deployed embedded browser Accesss NetFront browser has […]

MontaVista Software Inc. and PalmSource Inc., two leaders in mobile device software, have joined each others partner programs and are teaming up to “help further accelerate the development of next generation Linux-based mobile phones,” the companies announced today. They plan to “leverage their collective expertise to create integrated solutions for handset vendors and mobile operators […]