Embedded Linux at Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe Conference

Posted by Promwad on Jul 28, 2009 12:04 PM EDT
promwad.com; By Anna Belianko
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The 5th Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe Forum took place at Belarus on July 2009. The goal of LVEE is to exchange experience between Open Source community members and promote Linux-based solutions

The 5th Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe Forum (LVEE’09) took place at Grodno (Belarus) on July 2, 2009. The goal of LVEE is to exchange experience between Open Source community members and promote Linux-based solutions.

Promwad Innovation Company is a regular participator and a sponsor of Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe conference (LVEE). This year it demonstrated some extra and unusual ways of Linux application on different hardware platforms. And the motto of Promwad sounded like Linux Embedded.

Promwad developers and Linux-experts exhibited a line of custom designed devices that runs Linux OS. They presented a HiFi audio streaming player, DVB-T set-top box prototype, GPS-navigator etc.

The main aspects of technical reports presented orally were:

Platform development based on Blackfin ADSP BF548 and uClinux Application of IP-PBX Asterisk on Blackfin platform Openinkpot and IPlinux Distribution kits Neo Freerunner, Gentoo, Openmoko Freemante as a new OS for Maemo Open Source and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud OpenVZ: package and resource management for Linux and others.

By decision of the audience the author of the best abstract of the conference, Maksim Litnitski (Russia), was honoured with the special prize from Promwad. Maksim presented a report on Asterisk IP ATC and got as a present from sponsor a cell-phone that runs Linux OS.

About LVEE Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe is an annual Open-air forum held in Belarus. The central part of the forum is a conference of free/open source software developers and users. The format of the event includes reports, workshops and round tables. It unites Open Source community mostly from CIS countries, Poland, Lithuania, Finland etc. for communication, disputes and leisure. [HYPERLINK@www.lvee.org]

About Promwad Electronic product design house that focuses on Embedded Linux and System-on-Chip solutions. It provides turnkey product development services for mass production. The area of application includes consumer electronics, multimedia, digital signage, automotive & on-board electronics. [HYPERLINK@www.promwad.com]

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