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Linux for Home Electronics

Posted by michael on from the it's-just-better-with-the-penguin dept.

ives writes "Matsushita (Panasonic) and Sony are going to develop a Linux platform for digital home electronic devices. The nice thing is that they want to release the jointly developed source code for this project under the GPL. The press release mentions open source, the GPL and even Richard Stallman :^)."

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  1. Seems like most PVR's... by xchino · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seems to me that most commercial PVR's are running on a Linux platform, not to mention the several PVR projects for Linux such as MythTV and Freevo.

    I use both of these and they both work great (with much tweaking on my part) and I don't have to deal with any of the PVR bs like commercials or having to subscribe.. which makes all the work it took in getting a solution working up more than worth it. If more people would support one of these projects it could easily grow into an easy to use package that anybody can setup in a realatively short time and we can circumvent DRM. "You wanna stick DRM on all the PVR's? Fine, my PC is DRM-less.. do something about it."

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  2. Sony/Masushita VS. Microsoft ? by borgdows · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sony and Matsushita has both a common ennemy -> Microsoft Microsoft is attacking Sony on their Playstation business, where as Matsushita has very good relationship with Nintendo (they make the mini-dvd player of the Gamecube, and the Gamecube Q)

  3. Re:RMS is not going to like this. by jmorris42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    In small embedded spaces it IS just Linux, even if you are GNU zealot. The GNU tools are almost always absent. If the Flash isn't totally puny you get busybox.

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  4. Sony Linux PVR Cocoon by doctor_no · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is info on Sony's Linux PVR Cocoon:

    http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/cocoon/

    It's uses MontaVista's Linux which is likely what this project is based after.

    So Sony's Cocoon should be a good example what this alliance may produce.

    Also you can check out the previous /. article about this product:

    http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/04/1328209.sh tm l?tid%129