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Digeo To Ship Full-Featured Linux-based PVR
Gentu writes "Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has embraced Linux in his latest product offering, Moxi. Moxi is a PVR system from Digeo with some additional cool features, like wireless ethernet support, internet/router/firewall/gateway capabilities, DVD playback and more media functionality in general. OSNews has the article, screenshots and more information. "
I am going to venture a wild guess and say that the licensing costs to run windows on this thing would be the #1 reason why Mr. Allen is using linux...
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A probably poorly designed tivo-ish router. I'd be interested in watching outgoing traffic. It would be very easy to put in a little reporting device to record what shows you watch, and what dvd's you watch. It might all be a ploy for in-depth marketing research.
Just adding "Linux" to the title doesn't make it newsworthy
Umm... Yes it does
"Another useful feature of Moxi is that the ROM and operating system can be completely upgraded on the fly from the cable operator via the included modem. This way any bugs or other problems on the customer's device can easily be fixed."
All those neat features you thought were too good to be true, that led you to buy the box? They were bugs. We fixed 'em. No need to thank us.
Lovingly yours forever,
The cable company.
How else will it reliably relay packets to/from the toaster?
Duh!
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'nuff said
This is only
If Bill Gates created a Linux-based vibrating buttplug, it'd be front page news on
(personally I'd use OpenBSD for that, less chance of a backdoor assault.)
:P
Trolling is a art,
Great, so now I'll have to patch my appliances to keep script kiddies from exploiting my toast?
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has embraced Linux in his latest product offering, Moxi. Moxi is a PVR system from Digeo with some additional cool features
Uh oh....embrace and extend anyone?
Diego Mantoya, you killed my Tivo, prepare to die.
Yup, sad but true...
For all of it's benefits, sometimes IP connections are better replaced by cereal port connections.
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Paul: Bill, how's it hanging?
Bill: What's up?
Paul: I brought you my latest toy, man. It's a PVR and stuff.
Bill: Cool. What's it running, CE? XP?
Paul: Linux.
Bill: Linux? Linux? You frigging idiot, we're trying to crush Linux!
Paul: Since when?
Bill: I sent you an email, you retard.
Paul: Yeah? You'd better read your own freaking manual, bigshot genius, because you didn't copy me on that.
Bill: Crap. Oh, well. That's what I pay all those goddamn lawyers for. Look, I'll buy you out and go Chapter 6 or whatever it is these days.
Paul: But...but I don't want you to buy me out. This is my baby. Why don't you go think up something novel on your own? Oh, wait - you can't, can you, Mr. Innovation?
Bill: Piss up a stick, Allen. I want that Linux hellspawn dead asap.
Paul: Well, you can...what's that rumble?
Bill: Sounds like the plumbing.
Paul: Wait - don't tell me you turned the hoppers into smart devices.
Bill: Yep. Booted them up today, and they haven't been hacked yet.
Paul: What time this morning?
Bill: About ten minutes ago-
(Sounds of exploding geysers, shrill screams, porcelain shattering.)
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Why wouldn't you want your pvr to act as a router? Imagine a Utopia where your video audio and data all live and breathe as one! Where you can sit on your back porch and surf the web while watching tv? We've unleashed data from lines and from being device specific, it's about time we truly got to tv, too!
The only downside here is exposing yourself to the possibility of a Denial of Breakfast attack ...
"Old man yells at systemd"