I do embedded Linux and have done so on several generations of hardware and kernel.
There are a lot of slightly incorrect comments here about the size of the 2.6 kernel vs. 2.4. Once you know what your target hardware platform will is, and which subsystems you need, you can tailor a kernel to be usably small by configuring out the parts that you don't need. Don't need USB, or video4linux? Leave it out. Don't use modules, unless you need to control Read the rest of this entry »

Channel Insider readers had a lot to say about our opinion column "Ode to Broken Windows (Vista)." Check out their comments on the pros and cons of the beleaguered operating system.
In the two years since Windows became generally available, Windows Vista has been a target of critics and users alike. Microsoft has repeatedly tried bolstering its beleaguered operating system, it has failed to captured the glory of previous releases.
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE --
Highlighting its continued leadership in aerospace and defense software,
LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today
announced that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Maritime Systems & Sensors has
selected LynxOS® 5.0 real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity 3.0
development toolkit for the radar design and development portion of the
Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Read the rest of this entry »

-- significant reduction of operational costs for the technological
infrastructure of its information systems;
-- improved system availability and performance through the consolidation
of all processes on a single platform ensuring high solidity, reliability
and especially availability (99.99%);
-- better system control through an open platform (Linux on System z)
featuring software modules for effective system monitoring such as IBM
Tivoli Read the rest of this entry »

Lineo--Japan's embedded Linux software vendor--has developed Warp!!2, which enables a low-power Linux system to boot within 2.97 seconds. Warp!!2 consists of a bootloader, a customized Linux software stack, and a 'hibernation driver'. The hibernation driver is Lineo's innovation, which is capable of writing a snapshot of the RAM into flash memory instead of to a hard drive.
New features in Warp!!2 include the requirement for smaller memory size Read the rest of this entry »

Jonas notes that using a hosted version of this type of system is not
an option for some businesses. "The challenge that many organizations
have is how to protect and limit access to file data from multiple
locations while still allowing end users to be productive," Jonas
said. "Because of HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other Personal
Information Protection regulations, businesses do not always want to
outsource this type of application. They would Read the rest of this entry »

At last, a desi PC software system
BANGALORE: The personal computer has been around for over 25 years — but Indians have had to run them with ‘imported’ software, whether Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s Mac OS or one or other flavour of the Open Source Linux.
Finally, we have something we can call India’s own PC Operating System: The Chennai unit of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), led by Read the rest of this entry »

The pace of software development — regardless of the licence — is pretty fast these days. The state of your systems need constant monitoring. New features, bug-fixes and (most important) security updates need to be properly managed. Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler. In short they are ways that — when it comes to system updates — Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON, Oct 14, 2008 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) --
-- Texas Instruments (TI) and VirtualLogix, a real-time virtualization
company, announced they have collaborated to deliver the first software
solution that introduces control- and management-plane capability to TI
digital signal processors (DSPs) targeted for wireless base stations.
The companies said the capability enables base station original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to use TI's Read the rest of this entry »

New Mobile Video Patroller, In-Car Video System for Police and Fire Departments, is on the Forefront of Next Generation Mobile Computing
Imagine an in-car digital video system that stands up to the toughest demands, yet is easy for law enforcement personnel to use. KCI Communications delivers it- a powerful mobile system that combines leading edge technology, world class quality and robust reliability. KCI offers affordable digital video surveillance Read the rest of this entry »