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A look at the development costs of Linux

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on November 26, 2009 11:07 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Check out a new Linux-related article on the site - Where is the cost in an embedded Linux system?

Written by Andy Lunness, programme manager at STMicroelectronics, he looks at the distribution of cost in an embedded Linux system.

In particular, he addresses the cost of the development effort, which he says any project manager will tell you is the major cost of projects. He also considers other factors, such as open source licensing, the cost in IT infrastructure, bills of materials, and time to market...

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RMI's 'Android' processor gets Samsung LED TV design-in

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on September 8, 2009 8:19 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
RMI has seen its MIPS-compatible Au1250 processor selected by Samsung Electronics for a range of portable LED TVs, writes Richard Wilson.

RMI's Au1250 Processor is the first MIPS-compatible SoC processor supported for Android aimed at media and communications applications.

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Copyleft and breaking the cycle of OS fragmentation

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on September 7, 2009 2:52 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
We've just updated the site with an interesting comment piece from LiMo. From Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMO foundation, to be precise. See Comment: Breaking the cycle of OS fragmentation

He begins:
The mobile software world is evolving at a rapid rate buoyed by the infusion of open source principles, methodologies, philosophies and licensing. While this is exciting and invigorating, it is also giving rise to a number of issues - some new, while others give us a sense of "déjà-vu".
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Microsoft sees the Linux light

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on August 6, 2009 3:08 PM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks
Microsoft logo.jpgDidn't expect to be writing about Microsoft in this blog, but here we are. A bit late flagging this, from last week... but even Redmond is seeing the benefit of Open Source.

Microsoft has announced the release of 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. It apparently includes three Linux device drivers, which have been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree.

The drivers are intended to enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualised on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

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MIPS processor architecture gets Android

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on June 3, 2009 12:30 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Android logo 2.jpegMIPS Technologies has ported Google's Android operating system to the MIPS processor architecture, aiming to expand the use of Android beyond phones, into digital TVs, mobile internet devices, digital picture frames and set-top boxes.

"Initially finding success in the mobile phone market, Android is now set to move into other digital consumer devices," said the processor firm. "Android's ready-to-use software stack provides a device-agnostic application development platform, and a common framework for the industry."

The source code will be made publicly available within 60 days, according to MIPS, whose licensees are demonstrating Android products at Computex in Taipei.
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Qt becomes LGPL

By Richard Danter - Wind River on January 14, 2009 2:51 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
RichardDanter Nokia has announced that the Qt library will, from the upcoming 4.5 release, be licensed under the LGPL 2.1 license in addition to the existing GPL and commercial licenses.
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