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Lynuxworks gets a shot in the ARM
News Lynuxworks, which makes Linux software for embedded devices, has landed a deal with prominent chip designer ARM to bundle the two companies' products into a single embedded Linux development platform.
[May 9, 2002, 16:15]
Motorola buys embedded Linux pioneer
News Although Metrowerks now owns the Embedix operating system software -- which is best known for powering a line of Zaurus handhelds from Sharp -- it will also support software from other embedded Linux vendors including LynuxWorks, TimeSys and...
[December 17, 2002, 15:48]
Neutrino OS is Unix flavour of the month
News Other companies in the embedded OS space include Microsoft, with its Windows CE Embedded and NT Embedded products -- embedded Linux vendors, such as Lineo; and traditional real-time OS vendors, including Wind River Systems and Lynx Systems (now...
[October 20, 2000, 8:32]
Linux gets standards for devices
News For example, a company that had written software for a network traffic router using MontaVista Software's version of embedded Linux could more easily switch to the version from competitor LynuxWorks if it chose.
[February 20, 2003, 11:52]
Riding on the open source wagon
News Long-time real-time operating system vendor Lynx Realtime Systems recently renamed itself LynuxWorks to reflect its focus on embedded Linux. In a market overflowing with Internet-enabled applications, vendors increasingly are counting on the magic...
[November 1, 2000, 11:58]
Yamaha, NEC back Linux start-up
News Other companies working to adapt their businesses to the arrival of embedded Linux are QNX Software and LynuxWorks. MontaVista Software, a company specialising in use of Linux in embedded computing devices, has won an investment from Yahama and...
[November 22, 2002, 9:53]
Wind River acquires BSD's Unix
News And LynuxWorks, formerly known as Lynx Real-Time Systems and one of Wind River's traditional competitors, has moved to embrace Linux as well. In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems has acquired Berkeley Software...
[April 5, 2001, 8:23]
In Linux Land, the battle is on for survival
News A second generation of Linux companies included Lineo, MontaVista Software, TimeSys and LynuxWorks, all focusing on Linux for "embedded" computing devices such as network routers, handheld computers or set-top boxes.
[March 13, 2001, 13:47]
Embedded Linux alive and kicking
News Other embedded Linux contenders include LynuxWorks, Coollogic, Finite State Machine Labs, TimeSys and Applied Data Systems. The hype that spawned several Linux start-ups has vanished, but a pioneer in operating systems for computing devices other...
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
Linux company braves IPO waters
News Lineo, LynuxWorks, Linuxcare and Turbolinux all backed off from IPO plans. MandrakeSoft, a French seller of the Linux operating system, has begun an initial public stock offering to raise about $3.7 million, shortly after four US Linux companies...
[July 23, 2001, 11:43]
Cooperative open source testbed opens doors
News All the biggest Linux companies also are involved, including Red Hat, VA Linux Systems, Caldera Systems, SuSE, Turbolinux, LynuxWorks and Linuxcare. Computing giants will take their first steps Wednesday in a program to make Linux work better on...
[January 24, 2001, 9:26]
Linux heads for mobile phones
News Companies including MontaVista Software, TimeSys, Red Hat, LynuxWorks and Motorola are all trying to adapt the software for the embedded computing market, which includes mobile phones and other consumer-electronics products and devices.
[January 13, 2003, 8:55]
IBM and SuSE queue for cash registers
News But others such as MontaVista Software, TimeSys and LynuxWorks are aggressively pursuing the market. SuSE Linux, a seller of the open-source operating system, has begun a partnership with IBM to bundle its software with Big Blue products geared for...
[January 8, 2004, 7:35]
MontaVista wants to put Linux on your TV
News Though Linux hasn't caught on widely in desktop and laptop computers, where Microsoft is dominant, companies including MontaVista, TimeSys, Red Hat, LynuxWorks and Motorola are trying adapt the software for the embedded computing market, which...
[January 8, 2003, 9:02]
Linux company Lineo lays off 13 percent
News LynuxWorks, another rival, withdrew its IPO plans in June, five months after Lineo made the same move. Lineo, a company working to get its version of Linux established in devices such as set-top boxes and handheld computers, laid off about 40...
[July 20, 2001, 11:37]
Major Caldera shareholders may sell
News Lineo, LynuxWorks, Linuxcare and Turbolinux all withdrew from IPO plans in recent months, citing a weak market, though French Linux company MandrakeSoft is braving the stock offering waters with an effort to sell about $3.7m worth.
[July 24, 2001, 11:47]
Linux heads for embedded status
News Other specialists include TimeSys, LynuxWorks, Motorola's Metrowerks and FSMLabs. Wind River, a major force in software embedded in devices such as cellphones or factory robots, has signed a deal with leading Linux seller Red Hat to jointly develop...
[February 23, 2004, 7:25]
SuSE expects break-even second quarter
News During the same period, Turbolinux, Lineo, LynuxWorks and Linuxcare withdrew their IPO plans. German Linux seller SuSE was thwarted in its first attempt to go public, but chief executive Gerhard Burtscher believes a reorganisation has laid the...
[February 5, 2002, 15:42]
Sharp picks Lineo's Linux for new PDA
News A host of competitors, including Microsoft, Red Hat, LynuxWorks and MontaVista Software, also are vying to wrestle leadership in the embedded operating system market away from the top company, Wind River Systems.
[June 1, 2001, 8:43]
Novell plans launch of snap-response Linux
News Wind River, Concurrent and LynuxWorks all have embraced Linux despite having competing proprietary products of their own. Novell plans an October launch for its Suse Linux Enterprise Real-Time product, an operating system geared for financial...
[September 21, 2006, 8:55]
