Linux: November 2004 Archives
D-Link has released source code, under the GNU GPL license, for a MIPS-based ADSL router with a built-in four-port switch and wireless 802.11g/b radio. The DSL-G604T supports "all major ISPs," D-Link says, and has been marketed primarily in Australia, Great Britain, and Russia.
Mandrake Linux has been around for a few years now and lately have been reaching out to academic communities. Its popularity is growing as a desktop linux platform that installs with very little fuss.
Mandrakesoft ended fiscal 2003/04 with record sales of 5.18 million euros. The Company announced that income rose by 33 percent over the previous year (3.9 million euros).
heise online - Linux distributor Mandrakesoft is back in the black
LinuxDevices.com has published proceedings from the Sixth Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Asia, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The papers span a broad range of topics ranging from fundamental real-time technologies, to applications, to hardware, to tools. As usual, the conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation.
Linuxdevices.com reports on an open source project that could be of benefit for my PhD research.
Scratchboxis an open source project to simplify cross-platform software compilation. They have recently made several advances that may interest embedded device developers. The project is helping Debian ARM strive for parity with Debian x86 by enabling package maintainers to build native ARM applications on fast x86 PCs, without modifying package build scripts
