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Bruce Perens: A Vertical Market Seeks Open Standards

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| So, of all the critical industries crying out for Open Standards, who is 
| campaigning for them in their own industry today? Is it the manufacturers of 
| voting machines, who must establish high standards to safeguard democracy? Or 
| the medical records system vendors?   
| 
| Nope, it's the makers of casino slot machines.
| 
| Surprisingly, a large number of slot machines run Linux and the GNU system, 
| using off-the-shelf PC motherboards and video cards, inside of very 
| specialized cabinets. For example, see WMS Gaming's platform. And like the 
| broader IT market, the gaming industry's desire for Open Standards comes out 
| of economic factors.     
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3778376/Bruce+Perens+A+Vertical+Market+Seeks+Open+Standards.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4ks9ea


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The hidden world of Linux

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| There are many great FOSS projects that utilise old PC hardware and give it a 
| new lease of life. The best is desktop computing with various Linux 
| distribution flavours like Mint, PCLinux, Ubuntu and countless others. In 
| fact it is my considered belief that the best hardware to run Linux on is 
| infact (almost) any machine that is at least 12 months old. It is possible, 
| of course, to select components based on the degree (and maturity) of the 
| specific support under Linux but this has two major drawbacks.      
| 
| [...]
| 
| Not only do such projects look to modify embedded Linux devices, but some 
| great projects have sprung up to utilise old PCs every household seems to  
| accumulate in order to fulfil a number of key uses. For example, 
| comprehensive firewall distributions like IPCop or Smoothwall or NAS 
| distributions like FreeNAS (although this is based on BSD.) These are not 
| dirty hacked operating systems either but very mature, streamlined, low 
| memory footprint distributions which run headlessly. Being totally 
| administered through a web browser makes these distributions feel extremely 
| professional and polished (even if the archaic hardware they are running on 
| doesn’t) this being coupled by the extraordinary amount of options present 
| really makes these projects an extraordinary example of the flexibility of 
| Linux/BSD.          
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http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/the-hidden-world-of-linux/


Linux everywhere

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| Take yesterday as a case in point.  I checked the order status of my Elonex 
| One, and sent an email to see if my order for the One can be upgraded to the 
| One+ (bluetooth, and bigger internal memory).  I then caught the train to the 
| Queen Elizabeth hospital, watching the in-train tv which is powered by some 
| Linux flavour (given the error message I saw a few weeks back).  Visiting my 
| friend Simon at the QE, he’s spotted that the tv/phone/internet screens that 
| each patient has are powered by Linux.  This is of course when he’s not 
| tapping away on his Asus EEE, and hopefully writing the next Da Vinci Code 
| (only better).        
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http://andyhollyhead.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/linux-everywhere/


Linux is truly everywhere

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| I spent a long time smiling about the Linux bootup screen that I had just 
| seen. To begin with, it reminded me that Linux, and other open-source 
| products, are now everywhere. Linux is no longer for the uber-geeks. It's not 
| just for system administrators and programmers, either. Linux is now at the 
| core of mainstream appliances, there even when you don't think that a 
| computer or operating system might be involved.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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


What CAN’T Linux do?

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| 1. The story mentioned above. A man installs Linux on sixteen Playstation 3s 
| (with zero hardware modifications), clusters them together, and creates a 
| system to simulate black holes.  
| 2. Installing Linux on a Mac. I was just reading the most recent Wired 
| magazine that has a good story on how Apple has created a very closed system 
| where only Apple software plays on Apple hardware. Hello Yellow Dog Linux! I 
| have run Linux on an iBook - it was sweet.   
| 3. Routers. We all know that Linux works well on routers. OpenWRT installs 
| well on many Linksys routers. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| 11. Airplane black boxes. Montavista uses a Carrier Grade Linux to power 
| in-flight recorders. 
| 12. Brain surgery. Yep. This Linux-powered robot helps in brain surgery.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=186
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