Chumby Industries announced a partnership with Albino Blacksheep to provide Flash-based games for the Linux-based Chumby "alarm-clock" computer, leveraging its motion-sensing capabilities. Meanwhile, Chumby's development site is growing, providing a forum, wikis, and other information for hacking the Chumby's open-source hardware and software.

Formula One motor racing is no longer about famous car marques, its about precise science and using technology to shave another fraction of a second off a lap time, and Linux is playing a pivotal role in helping the race teams achieve this.

Yoggie will offer its tiny Linux-based hardware firewall in the PCMCIA ExpressCard form factor. Available next month, the Gatekeeper Card Pro firewall fits completely inside host laptops, and runs 13 different applications aimed at keeping Windows-based PCs safe from viruses, spam, malware, and other security threats.

Wind River is to port its Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and Workbench development suite to Sun's UltraSPARC T2 chip multithreading (CMT) processor.

Asustek Computer plans to share its experience with open-source software in its popular Eee PC low-cost laptop at the OpenTechSummit Taiwan 2008, which runs from April 25 to 29, the company said.

For many a year desktop Linux has failed to overthrow Windows and PC users (including notebooks) have largely shunned the penguin. Things remain the same on traditional PCs but emerging devices seem to be tilting things in Linux’s favor.

News of a US$400 Mac clone on the market spread like wildfire this week -- only to be supplanted by suspicions that the offering may well be a giant fraud.

Derived from Ubuntu packages, Ampro Embedded Linux is a free, open-source, reduced-footprint operating system enhanced with device-oriented features such as its default touch-enabled Hildon graphical user interface, plus other selected technologies from the Ubuntu Mobile & Embedded (UME) project.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today began shipping its delayed Barcelona chip in volume.

UK-based embedded device manufacturer Datasound Laboratories (DSL) has started shipping a RAID-based duplicating appliance for CompactFlash cards and IDE DiskOnModules and hard drives. The Flash Duplicator can program up to ten target devices at once, regardless of format, OS, or partition type, the vendor claims.

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