The picotux 100 is the world's smallest Linux computer, only slightly larger (35mm×19mm×19mm) than an RJ45 connector.

Inside, there is an ARM7 CPU at 55 MHz running uClinux kernel 2.4.27 and Busybox 1.0.

Two communication interfaces are provided, 10/100 Mbit half/full duplex Ethernet and a serial port with up to 230.400 baud.

Five additional lines can be used for either general input/output or serial handshaking.

MontaVista Software has launched an open source project aimed at bringing "hard real-time" performance to standard, native Linux, and has seeded a fledgling "Open Source Real-Time Linux Project" with a reference implementation claimed to improve real-time responsiveness of the 2.6.9rc3 Linux kernel by "orders of magnitude."

MontaVista CEO Jim Ready is something of an expert in real-time systems, having pioneered the development of VRTX -- considered by many to have been the first commercially viable real-time operating system -- after co-founding Hunter and Ready Systems in 1980 (which was later renamed to Ready Systems).

In 1999, though, Ready turned his back on the traditional real-time embedded software industry he helped create, to found embedded Linux startup MontaVista Software. Now, Ready appears, well, ready to complete the circle -- bringing Linux back to his own real-time roots.

Data Connection publishes technical white paper providing IP multicast overview for OEMs and service providers


Data Connection Limited (DCL), the world's leading provider of communications protocol software, announced DC-PIM-SM and DC-IGMP, the first two products in its new Multicast Product Family for OEMs building multicast-enabled routers and switches.

Unlike other multicast products, Data Connection's solution is truly portable, with an open, extensible and modular architecture that is designed for future as well as existing applications.

Entering its third year of development, L is proud to announce its upcoming Linux-based 64-bit Operating System codenamed L OS, with emphasis on performance, security, usability, and readiness for new hardware technologies.

L OS is based on the open source Linux kernel and is a joint effort development of a central core team and worldwide pool of about 11500 Linux programmers and developers and 37 key hardware manufacturers and researchers.

The project has been under development since May, 19th, 2001.

Equator Technologies has released a reference design for multi-format video-over-IP devices based on embedded Linux.

The "Starfish" design targets IP set-top boxes, video streaming appliances, digital media players, personal video recorders with extra-long recording, DVD jukeboxes, and digital-media adaptors for sharing media between PCs and TVs.

Bluegiga WRAPô Multiradio Access Server is a cutting edge wireless Bluetooth basestation supporting WLAN, Ethernet and GSM/GPRS offering TCP/IP connectivity.

This enables you to link equipment and mobile users to any services located in network or in the device.

The Zaurus C860 is an elegant and highly portable Linux-based PDA that sports a clamshell design. You can use the machine in laptop mode, or swivel the display and use it in portrait orientation ike a traditional slate-design PDA. It has a 400 MHz XScale processor, CF and SD slots, plenty of RAM and won't lose your data, even if the battery runs out.

It has the same amazing CG Silicon display used in the C760 (only available in Sharp products) which is incredibly color saturated, bright and sharp. It also has the best keyboard I've used on a PDA.

Concurrent Computer Corporation , Integrated Solutions Division, today announced the delivery of version 2.0 of its RedHawkô Linux real-time operating system, designed specifically for the AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron 64-bit processor.

Concurrentís RedHawk 2.0 is the first real-time Linux operating system for the Opteron processor platform to be offered by a leading real-time solutions provider. Based on the 2.6.0 Linux kernel, RedHawk 2.0 is fully compatible with the popular Red Hatô Inc. Enterprise Linux distribution.

The new RedHawk release is currently in use by a prominent international Concurrent customer in the development of next-generation, 64-bit real-time applications.

German embedded Linux integrator MYCABLE releases XXS3HC-Device can contain up to three XXS-Boards and a Mini PCI card for WLAN.

This complete computing system has only a hight and width of 95mm and a depth of 75mm. All main components like CPU or graphics accelerator have a passive cooling.
The XXS3HC Device is equipped with a XXS1500 module (CPU) and a XXS3DI module (graphics) by default.
It is also possible to combine a CPU module with two XXS3DI modules or three XXS1500 modules together.
There will be annother module available for the XXS3HC device soon: the XXSMPEGA, a board with hardware MPEG decoder, 2 x IEEE1394a-2000 and MOST interface.

Metrowerks Senior Software Engineer and veteran real-time programmer Bernhard Kuhn has created a Linux kernel patch that he claims enables hard, real-time performance in the Linux kernel by adding priorities to interrupts and spinlocks.

> Kuhn believes his approach to be more "natural" and akin to traditional real-time operating systems (RTOSs) than the dual-kernel approach taken by real-time projects such as RTAI and RTLinux, and he is hopeful that his patch might one day win enough interest and support to become part of the official Linux kernel tree.