Gumstix, a company that has been selling small system boards – about the size of a “gum stick” – for years, is now offering crowdfunding for hardware that users can design themselves. (Stick with me ...

Keep that creaky old PC alive with an optimized and stripped-down Linux distro.

There are strong technical and business reasons to consider using Linux for your next embedded application project such as diverse hardware support, performance, scalability, high reliability, and ...

I tried the latest MX Linux version on my PC, and it made the system look and feel like new ...

A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.

Timesys Corp. has an offer that no sane embedded developer who wants to get started with open source Linux can refuse: built-to-spec custom Linuxdistributions for device designs based on the PowerPC, ...

Linux stands at the heart of countless operating systems, driving everything from personal computers to servers and embedded systems across the globe. Its flexibility and open-source nature allow for ...

Follow along with this step-by-step guide to creating your own distribution. In an article in the June 2018 issue of LJ, I introduced a basic recipe for building your own minimal Linux-based ...

Microsoft has done a few custom Linux projects over the years. There was a Linux-based OS for datacenter network switches and a Linux-based microcontroller OS that it built for its Azure Sphere secure ...