On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:52:53 +0000
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chumby CEO looks forward to hacker input
>
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> | Most CEOs would faint dead away if you said you'd taken a prototype
> of | their new electronic device, ripped off the housing,
> reconfigured its | innards, hacked your way through its code, and
> then sewn the whole thing | into the stomach of a Teletubby doll.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The prototype version currently uses embedded Linux running the
> | 2.4.20 kernel, but will ship with a later version. According to
> | Duane Maxwell, head of software for Chumby Industries, "We're
> | planning on moving to Linux 2.6, not sure yet which version,
> | but we're trying to get as close to the latest version while
> | still getting stability on our processor."
> `----
>
> http://entertainment.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/1413204&from=rss
not bad idea. i think i might make a live distro that does something
similar for cruddy laptops...
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Regards, Ed :: http://www.bsdwarez.net
proud linux person
Stan Lee admitted that Captain America is a lame copy of Chuck
Norris.
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