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____/ Terry Porter on Wednesday 29 October 2008 04:15 : \____
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:44:11 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | Finally, Moore's Law and the general trend toward cheaper and faster
>> hardware | means that Linux now fits into even more places than it did
>> before. We | normally think of Linux as an operating system for servers,
>> or even for | desktop computers. But we can expect Linux to be at the
>> heart of a growing | number of appliances, from video-on-demand devices
>> to digital video recorders | (e.g., TiVo), to cellphones (e.g., Android
>> and OpenMoko). The Linux-powered | refrigerator, with a built-in
>> bar-code scanner that can tell you how long ago | you bought milk, isn't
>> far behind.
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>> http://ostatic.com/158401-blog/linux-is-truly-everywhere
>
> My TV, a 32" LG HIDEF LCD runs Linux. I had no idea until I read the
> users manual and found the GPL listed at the end.
>
> It has a USB slot which connects to anything USB storage, and displays
> pics in a slideshow with zoom etc.
>
> Expect to see most TVs running Linux, except the ones stuck on a blue
> screen, they will be running something else ...
Death knell for television as we know it
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| Japanese media reports say the new television, which is likely to run on the
| open source Linux operating system rather than Microsoft Windows to save
| boot-up time, could be on sale locally by next March.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/death-knell-for-television-as-we-know-it/2008/05/26/1211653917723.html
Embedded Linux has more friends than you may know
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| Sony recently announced that one of its BRAVIA LCD TV factories will double
| production from 2 million TV sets per year to 4 million to meet growing
| demand in Europe. Sony has sold more than 20 million of these TVs, and
| they're all built with embedded Linux.or.
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http://www.embedded.com/columns/guest/207602734
Mobile TVs typically run Linux too.
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~~ Best of wishes
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