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The Linux/Microcontroller project is a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU).

Pronounced "you-see-linux", the name uClinux comes from combining the greek letter "mu" and the english capital "C". "Mu" stands for "micro", and the "C" is for "controller". uClinux first ported to the Motorola MC68328: DragonBall Integrated Microprocessor. The first target system to successfully boot is the PalmPilot using a TRG SuperPilot Board with a custom boot-loader created specifically for our Linux/PalmPilot port.

July 2007
Greg Ungerer has been posting patches against the dist for those wishing to follow the mid-release updates. The Patches can be found at the following link: http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/dist/patches/ Feed back on these patches can be posted to the uClinux-dev mailing list. If you wish to subscribe to the mailling list you can do it here https://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev/.

July 2007
The current uClinux-dist release is dated January 30, 2007. Here is a quick links to the tar.gz and tar.bz2 packages.

• http://www.uclinux.org/uClinux/dist/uClinux-dist-20070130.tar.gz
• http://www.uclinux.org/uClinux/dist/uClinux-dist-20070130.tar.bz2

June 2007
Again this year several uClinux developers will all be at the Ottawa Linux Symposium (Ottawa Canada June 27-30). Checkout the sessions that Robin Getz will be presenting at the conference.

• Session on "More Linux for Less" with Robin Getz on June 27th at Noon.
• BOF on "Embedded Linux" with Tim Bird June 27 at 6PM.

June 2007
The Freescale Technolgy Forum is holding many session on embedded Linux / uClinux this year (Orlando Florida June 25-28).

• Hands on Workshop "Getting Started with uClinux on Cost-Effective 32 bit Devices (MCF5207/MCF5208)" with Tatiana Orofino on June 26.
• Hands on Workshop "Introduction to Embedded Linux on ColdFire Processors (MCF5475/MCF5485)" with Cory Tate on June 27th.
• Hands on Workshop "Configuring and Use of Coldfire Embedded Voip Kit with uClinux (MCF5328/MCF5329)" with Michael Durrant on June 27th.
• Hands on Workshop "Building an MP3 Player on the uClinux Operating System Using the ColdFire MCF5249)" with Fabio Estevam on June 28th.

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