Embedded Linux Journal

Embedded Linux Journal Contents -- January 2002

Feature
      Real Time and Linux  by Kevin Dankwardt
What is real time? This article, first of a three-part series, introduces the benchmarks we'll run on real-time Linux version in the next two issues.
      The Linux4.TV Set-Top Box Open Source Project  by Gregory Haer
Here are the details on the new Linux4.TV development kit we're giving away in our development contest. Find out about MPEG playback, video capture, HTML-based interface and more.
      Linux and Telematics: Building a Passenger Heatstroke Warning  by David Beckemeyer A vehicle-based embedded Linux system with nationwide wireless networking and GPS is a big task, right? Make it approachable by starting with the Earthlink SPARK system.
Indepth
      Using GTK+/X as an Embedded GUI  by Chuck Groom
Create graphics that span widgets, space-saving text fields and more by customizing the freely available GTK+ toolkit.
      Qt Palmtop  by Kai Henning Simensen
This complete palmtop suite offers handwriting recognition, a claendar, an address book and everything you need in a PDA.
      HTTP in 44k with libhttp  by Alan DuBoff
Web browsers aren't the only clients that need to talk HTTP. Get information from web servers and even load completes software updates with this tiny, easy-o-use HTTP client library.
      A Conversation with Alfredo Delgado of Inalambrica.net  by Phil Hughes
Inlambrica is rolling out a network management platform with a difference--the package manager is a PostgreSQL database. ELJ's Phil Hughes asks Alfredo Delgado about Linux, databases and business.
      Highly Available Networking  by John Mehaffey
Achieve five nines reliability with the bonding network driver and the high availability dæmon.
      System Development Jump Start Class  by Don Marti
Embedded development instructor Ed Skinner offers philosophy and practical advice in an introductory developer class.
      Embedded PCI and Linux  by Steven Slupsky
How can you get the cost advantages of PCI and the ruggedness of an industrial platform in one form factor? Use inexpensive DIMM connectors and everyone's favorite OS.
Contests
      Contest Frenzy!  by Don Marti
If it's still an "idiot box" after this contest, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
Letters
      Letters  by Letters Editor
Readers bite back.
New Products
      New Products  by Heather Mead
BlueCat 4.0 and RT, VT 900 Set-Top Box, DeviceGate-E gateway, Zaurus SL-5000D
 
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