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The crinkly bits compared to a palm are:

• 235 MIPS @ 206 MHz (Palm is 2.7 MIPS @ 16MHz)
• 2.5 million transistors in 0.35 micron technology (image if they made it in 0.18 mircron!)
• IO = USB, IrDA, serial, audio/telecom CODECs, PCMCIA, CompactFlash
• Color/grey scales LCD at 1024x1024. However, the only touchscreens it advertises that it works with are 320x240 pixel screens.

The pictures on the original page indicate that Linux will run out of 32-megs of ROM and 32-megs of RAM. It also looks like SAMSUNG is going to try to take advantage of all the chip's features (the disappointing thing about Palm is that they didn't take advantage of all the Dragonball's features).

The thing to remember is that Samsung is like only putting together a reference design from Intel with a reference implementation of Linux (probably from Lineo) and standard off-the-shelf apps (like MP3 players) with minor modifications. The PDA-style apps are probably the Lineo PDA suite. Getting all this to work well in a limitted power budget will be tough enough. The first version will probably not contain any wizbang features beyond this.

The burning questions I have:

• Does it come with a TCP/IP stack?
• Does it use X Windows?

This is cool too: Samsung and Lineo Press Release.

The situation with Lineo is exactly the same. You can grab source code to the Open Source components, copy the binaries and do whatever you want with them. Some items in the Embedix distribution are not Open Source, and so you may not copy the aggregate, just like you couldn't copy the theoretical version of Win 2000 mentioned above. Suppose that Red Hat included a copy of MetroX. You couldn't copy the aggregate and share with all your friends. You could only copy the Open Source parts.

Furthermore, Lineo has a solid committment to the Open Source community. Ever visit http://busybox.lineo.com/ or http://tinylogin.lineo.com/? The main reason these exist in their current form and are available to the community is because Lineo has paid me to work on them and release them. Keep in mind that these are the fundamental building blocks of Embedix. Want to build your own embedded Linux distro, grab these and you are mostly there. Why would Lineo pay me to release these? Because it is realised that Open Source works. It works and is the Right Thing(tm) to do.

The situation with Lineo is exactly the same. You can grab source code to the Open Source components, copy the binaries and do whatever you want with them. Some items in the Embedix distribution are not Open Source, and so you may not copy the aggregate, just like you couldn't copy the theoretical version of Win 2000 mentioned above. Suppose that Red Hat included a copy of MetroX. You couldn't copy the aggregate and share with all your friends. You could only copy the Open Source parts.

Furthermore, Lineo has a solid committment to the Open Source community. Ever visit http://busybox.lineo.com/ or http://tinylogin.lineo.com/? The main reason these exist in their current form and are available to the community is because Lineo has paid me to work on them and release them. Keep in mind that these are the fundamental building blocks of Embedix. Want to build your own embedded Linux distro, grab these and you are mostly there. Why would Lineo pay me to release these? Because it is realised that Open Source works. It works and is the Right Thing(tm) to do.

...to download it, the embedix install images are available from lineo's site via anonymous ftp

For the actual press release and not the company's home page click Here.

What is your position towards Lineo's DrDos?
What's theirs towars FreeDOS?

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Alas, OpenLinux 2.3 was released before the new logo and corporate look were created. The companies became separate in 1998, as the press releases at Lineo and Caldera Systems make clear. You are mistakenly conflating logos, companies, and dates.

Furthermore, the math that folks have been doing (i.e. 3 cents per share * # shares microsoft) is flawed. Nobody really knows how much MS is actually paying, and nobody is going to tell either. I don't know, but I feel very confident that the total amount is much more than the alledged 150 million. Of course I don't know, since nobody around here will talk numbers (per the agreement with MS).

I am an employee of Lineo, but I'm not speaking for them (as if they would trust me).

If you can't find your DR DOS disks, download new ones from Lineo.

Transmeta's Crusoe Logo

Debian's Logo

Lineo's Logo

Notice a common theme here?

[space considerations preclude listing all the myriad of companies raking in the bucks by using embedded Linux, the mp3 appliance market is a prime example]