Sony, Panasonic, Others Stump For Linux

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
A consortium that includes Sony, Panasonic, Royal Philips Electronics and other companies has taken a step toward advancing the use of the Linux operating system in consumer electronics devices.
The CE Linux Forum announced earlier this week the release of the first CELF Specification and Reference Implementation, a collection of open-source patches for Linux. Among the patches are some designed to make it easier for consumer electronics devices using the Linux OS to start up and shut down faster, consume less power and use less memory, among other things. They were chosen and developed by various working groups within CELF. The patches are meant to make it simpler and quicker for developers to create products and get them on store shelves. Increasingly consumer electronics devices are using operating systems and software to perform functions such as playing back audio and video and managing digital media. With the patches, Linux developers won't have to start from scratch with each new product.
Source: CNet

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  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited July 2004
    w00t!!! PARTY!!! i personally know how hard it was to get my friends MP3 player to work on linux!! hopefully this will MAKE IT SO EASY AS WINDOWS!! or close... w00t!!! now if they start using linux technology it will be easier!!

    :celebrate
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