The hype that spawned several Linux start-ups has vanished, but a pioneer in operating systems for computing devices other than PCs still has faith that Linux is the foundation for success. MontaVista ...

Despite the somewhat subdued mood of this year's big West Coast LinuxWorld, there was near-universal agreement that one thing seemed to have grown stronger over the past six to twelve months: embedded ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

Meantime, the mainstream commercial and open-source communities have been busy adopting their core software architectures to suit small-footprint embedded systems—with the result, for example, that at ...

Consumers and enterprise workers will not likely soon see cute marketing labels such as “Linux Inside” or images of penguins pasted on the outer casings of their favorite entertainment and ...