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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:00:06 +0530 (IST)
Embedded Linux: Hard Hat Linux 2.0 debuts at ESC (please@xxxxxxx)
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From: please@xxxxxxx
Subject: Embedded News: MontaVista Expands Development Toolbox for Hard Hat Linux 2.0
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:06:40 GMT

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Powerful Configuration and Scaling Tools Highlighted at ESC Spring

San Francisco, Calif. - April 9, 2000 - MontaVista Software Inc., the
company powering the embedded revolution, today announced that the latest
release of its flagship product, Hard Hat™ Linux® 2.0 Professional Edition,
features a comprehensive suite of development tools designed to streamline
development, debugging and deploy-ment of embedded applications.  To address
the needs of resource-limited deeply embedded systems, Hard Hat Linux 2.0
introduces revolutionary system scaling and configuration tools, as well as
performance analysis, source-level debug, and other utilities to speed
embedded applications to market.

To help developers right-size the Linux kernel and populate embedded Linux
de-ployment images with an optimal file system, MontaVista introduces the
Target Con-figuration Tool (TCT).  This GUI-based utility enables developers
to select only needed modules and drivers for inclusion in kernel builds,
allowing bootable foot-prints scaled below 500 Kbytes. Using TCT avoids the
drudgery of hand editing con-figuration and make files while managing
dependencies among components. TCT similarly lets developers choose
pre-built packages for inclusion in an embedded file system, including
system binaries and data as needed.

Once developers have a correctly configured kernel and trimmed file system,
Monta-Vista’s new Library Optimizer Tool analyzes application use of shared
libraries and prunes away unneeded library code and symbols, yielding
smaller, more efficient de-ployment images.

“In Hard Hat Linux 2.0, MontaVista combines its extensive expertise in
embedded systems development with its dynamic participation in the Open
Source community,” states Sheila Baker, MontaVista vice president of
marketing. “With the tools and ca-pabilities in this release, we can address
the needs of both demanding embedded developers and of Linux hackers
building and deploying embedded applications.”

With this release, MontaVista also expands support for a variety of open
source tools retargeted for embedded cross development. These cross tools
include versions of the Linux Trace Tool (kernel performance and execution
analyzer), cbrowser, cflow, cprof, and cscope (C code analysis tools), DDD
(a graphical debugger interface), and Code Crusader (a semi-open integrated
development environment).  Hard Hat Linux 2.0 also continues to leverage the
ubiquitous open source GNU tools, including the gcc/g++ family of
compilers/assemblers and cross versions of the GDB source-level debugger for
kernel and application debugging.

Hard Hat Linux 2.0 also features support for hardware-based source-level
debug of the Linux kernel and device drivers with in-circuit emulation and
run-control devices like Abatron’s BDM and JTAG tools.

These and other tools in Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition host on a
wide array of development platforms, including Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog
Linux, Suse, Man-drake, TurboLinux, Solaris, under VMWare on Windows, and
natively on Hard Hat Linux for x86. Hard Hat Linux tools also target the
broadest array of CPU architec-tures and board and system-level platforms of
any embedded Linux development solution, including PowerPC, IA-32/x86, MIPS,
StrongARM, and SH.

Availability
The tools described above are included in Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional
Edition, available direct from MontaVista and MontaVista distribution
channels worldwide as a product subscription that encompasses the MontaVista
Hard Hat Linux kernel, utilities, development tools and one year of
technical support.

Also available for Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition are expanded
add-on capabilities, including packages for embedded Java,
High-Availability, legacy RTOS porting and emulation, and embedded GUI
development.

Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition and the tools described above will
be available the last week of April 2001, with additional functionality
within 30 days via on-line distribution.

Come experience Hard Hat Linux 2.0 at ESC Spring in booth #122, from April
10-12, 2001, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. For more
information about Hard Hat Linux and MontaVista Software Inc., please call
408-328-9200 or visit the Web site www.mvista.com.

About MontaVista Software, Inc.
MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems
software solutions for embedded systems. Founded in 1999 by real-time
operating system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal offering is the
Linux operating system and cross development tools tai-lored for embedded
systems. MontaVista products include Hard HatTM Linux®, a standard
off-the-shelf binary distribution of Linux optimized for x86/IA-32, PowerPC,
StrongARM, MIPS and other microprocessor architectures. Hard Hat Linux
offers developers a family of open source solutions for embedded design,
with targeted offerings for applications ranging from communi-cations
infrastructure to thin-client and edge applications.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
MontaVista Software is a pri-vately held company funded by leading investors
such Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co,
and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit
http://www.mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark
of MontaVista Software Inc. Intel, Pentium and XScale are trademarks of
Intel Corporation.  StrongARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited.
PowerPC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.  MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies. All other
names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of
their respective companies.

Contacts:
Joe Samagond
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications
MontaVista Software Inc.
Phone (408) 328-9234
E-mail: jsamagond at mvista.com

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From: please@xxxxxxx
Subject: Embedded Linux: Hard Hat Linux 2.0 debuts at ESC
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:06:03 GMT
 
MontaVista Debuts Hard Hat Linux 2.0 at ESC Spring
Highlights Stunning Array of Embedded Capabilities

San Francisco, Calif. - April 9, 2000 - MontaVista Software Inc., the
company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the
much-anticipated 2.0 release of its Hard Hat™ Linux® operating system. Hard
Hat Linux 2.0 is the first embedded OS and tool kit based entirely on the
latest Linux 2.4 kernel and boasts unrivaled support for embedded processor
architectures, CPU boards, and software components. The feature-rich release
spans the uni-verse of embedded applications, targeting designs as diverse
as consumer electronics, instrumentation/control, and communications
infrastructure. Ex-tremely scalable, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is equally at home
on deeply embedded, diskless designs with small RAM/ROM footprints, and in
complex business-critical applications, with stringent “5-nines”
availability requirements, running hundreds of processes and managing
massive loads.

The hallmarks of Hard Hat Linux 2.0 are breadth and depth. Hard Hat Linux
2.0 targets over 20 processors from 5 industry-leading architectures,
includ-ing x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, and SH (new to this
release). These CPUs populate the 60+ boards supported in the release,
including off-the-shelf production boards and evaluation/reference platforms
from global semiconductor suppliers.

A true embedded systems product, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 focuses on cross
de-velopment capability, with tools available on 8 host environments,
including Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Suse, Mandrake, TurboLinux,
Solaris, native/hosted Hard Hat Linux, as well as under VMWare on Windows
NT/2000.  Consequently, the Hard Hat Linux host-target matrix boasts over
420 fully tested and supported combinations!

Bringing unprecedented power to embedded target systems, Hard Hat Linux 2.0
boasts over 200 software packages, comprising thousands of must-have
deployable software components. Many are available for the first time for
deeply embedded processors like PowerQUICC, StrongARM, MIPS, and SH.

"Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is a tribute to the Open Source business model and to
MontaVista engineering excellence,” commented Jim Ready, founder and CEO of
MontaVista. “By providing more functionality across more configurations, we
enable embedded developers and OEM manufacturers to focus on their value-add
to speed next-generation applications to market.”

Availability
Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition is available direct from MontaVista
and MontaVista distribution channels worldwide as a product subscription,
providing the MontaVista Hard Hat Linux kernel, utilities, development tools
and one year of technical support. It is open source, royalty-free, and
built from 100% pure Linux sources.
Also available for Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition are expanded
add-on capabilities, including packages for embedded Java,
High-Availability, leg-acy RTOS porting and emulation, and embedded GUI
development.

MontaVista will also make available Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Journeyman Edition
freely available for technical evaluation and other uses.  A subset of Hard
Hat Linux Professional Edition, it targets a sampling from all Hard Hat
Linux CPU architectures and hosts on Red Hat Linux. It can be downloaded
from the MontaVista Web site or obtained on CD-ROM for a nominal charge.

Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition will be available the last week of
April 2001, and will be joined by additional functionality and add-on
technologies within 30 days via on-line distribution and on CD-ROM.

Come experience Hard Hat Linux 2.0 at ESC Spring in booth #122, from April
10-12, 2001, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. For more
information about Hard Hat Linux and MontaVista Software Inc., please call
408-328-9200 or visit the Web site www.mvista.com.

About MontaVista Software, Inc.
MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems
soft-ware solutions for embedded systems. Founded in 1999 by real-time
operat-ing system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal offering is
the Linux operating system and cross development tools tailored for embedded
sys-tems. MontaVista products include Hard HatTM Linux®, a standard
off-the-shelf binary distribution of Linux optimized for x86/IA-32, PowerPC,
Stron-gARM, MIPS, SH and other microprocessor architectures. Hard Hat Linux
of-fers developers a family of open source solutions for embedded design,
with targeted offerings for applications ranging from communications
infrastruc-ture to thin-client and edge applications.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California,
Monta-Vista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors
such Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co,
and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit
http://www.mvista.com  or call (408) 328-9200.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark
of MontaVista Software Inc. Intel, Pentium and XScale are trademarks of
Intel Corporation.  StrongARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited.
PowerPC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.  MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies. All other
names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of
their respective companies.


Contacts:
Joe Samagond
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications
MontaVista Software Inc.
Phone (408) 328-9234
E-mail: jsamagond at mvista.com

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