09.30.08
Posted in News Roundup at 6:53 pm by Roy Schestowitz
GNU/Linux
- MEPIS Linux 8.0 nears release
- Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job
- Linux and FOSS in a Slowing Economy
- New Linux Distribution, Linpus, Goes Global
- HUGHES Telematics selects Wind River for auto electronics
HUGHES Telematics is developing an advanced end-to-end telematics solution that will embrace a next-generation telematics architecture, which will be largely enabled by Wind River’s open operating system and hypervisor technology. Wind River’s solution will reduce development and hardware costs and increase the system’s functionality. HUGHES Telematics will begin rolling out its telematics solution in 2009.
- Red Hat Linux trumps Unix on TPC price/performance test
In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million transactions per minute — and at 22% lower cost than its next closest competitor.
- Linux SDIO stack targets ARM SoCs
Chennai, India-based EmbWise has ported its Linux SDIO stack to two ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs). Its SDIOWorx stack is now available for Freescale’s i.MX31 and i.MX27 multimedia SoCs, which are primarily targeted at the personal media player (PMP), personal navigation device (PND), and video surveillance camera markets, says EmbWise.
- Devil-Linux distro bundles router/firewall and server in one live CD
- Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task
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