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Survey of Linux-Based Gadgets & Devices
An anonymous reader writes "NewsFactor Network recently asked: Where Are All the Cool Embedded-Linux Gadgets? Well, LinuxDevices.com has just updated its answer to that question. The Embedded Linux "Cool Devices" Quick Reference Guide now encompasses 123 Linux-based gadgets and devices in 7 categories, including PDAs, mobile-phones, IP-phones, audio/video entertainment, tablet computers, gateways/routers, servers, wireless access points, robots, web-enabled cameras, telematics, industrial controllers, wrist watches, and last but not least, a DIY category: little Linux systems for projects and products. Lots of great pictures, too."
Doesn't Aibo run linux? How about Honda's Asimov (the robot) I really thought they did - maybe I was wrong, though. Anybody have definitive knowledge?
p.s. I think IBM japan is renting a honda Asimov as its receptionist for nearly 100,000 dollars per year. Who wants to be that it's the highest compensated
1) receptionist - ever
2) linux powered anything - ever (okay, if it ran linux - see above)
It does irks me that a robot makes more than me, though... sigh. I don't mind a 100k/yr job as a receptionist. Fuck, I will do the job for HALF that and do The Robot (dance) for 8 hours a day to impress the people coming in.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Talk about an embedded product!
When will TechTV demonstrate this I wonder?
Bring on Sumi Das!!!
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
The market for embedded computing systems is growing rapidly what with: PDAs, set-top boxes, computer games, smart phones, and other systems are all demanding apps that are smaller, smarter, faster: and that run on multiple platforms
I find Qt/Embedded (QtE) to be extremely resource-efficient for building really surprisingly sophisticated applications that run natively on multiple platforms with a simple recompile. QtE also integrates seamlessly with Java
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I've got a Nic (used to be called ThinkNIC) that I turned into a DMZ webserver, running NetBSD. By pulling the CDROM and the modem daughtercard, a full size Harddisk fits perfectly. Tell it to use ports 80 and 22, and you've got a one wire in (power) and one wire out (ethernet).
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I was shocked. Wish I knew who the company was that made them. Neat.
A winner is you!
I see a whole lot of their stuff on the way to production. A very smart company, and their forte is hand-held barcode stuff.
It doesn't mention Lunix, but here's a spiel on their embedded wireless LAN stuff.
Cant the xbox run on linux. PS2?
Who says you can't have both a quailty product which happens to be made with linux?
Hell, some of us wilder, more extreme types consider Linux as a *sign* of quality!
Great, more things my wife won't let me buy.
Some people have a way with words, others not have way.
One device I didn't see listed anywhere is the Dish Networks 721 PVR.
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http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/products/rec
The link to GNU GPL compliance http://208.45.37.181/ even runs ON a 721... Satellite receiver serving web pages, heh heh.
They forgot to list my favorite embedded Linux device :( Beowulf clusters of atomic supermen!
But. I'm still holding out for some SpaceGhost(tm, probably) style Power Bands!
If a giant oil company wanted an abortion, would W's head explode?
Well there are a lot of networking devices (no suprise to anyone here since it's basically a stock Linux box on cheap PC or non-PC hardware), and quite a few media devices, I'm surprised at the small number of devices in other categories.
I'm suprised we aren't seeing Linux in more phones, televisions, clocks, cameras and such. What's more, the list includes several rather exagerated "products" such as the Indrema system that was canned a long time ago and two IBM Linux wristwatches that will never go into production, but are merely interesting research projects.
The most interesting devices are the Motorola and Sony ones. It looks like both of those companies have a serious (as in credible, not as in very large) interest in embedded Linux. Even there, though, the devices are answers looking for questions, not things that are likely to generate large numbers of sales.
I've always thought that even though it is technically inferior in many ways, embedded Linux would beat out Windows CE just because of the economics of the embedded market scene. If this list is to be believed as representing the scope and penetration of embedded Linux, it is way behind and is unlikely to catch up.
More importantly, those pages at lInuxDevices haven't been touched since 2002. Most of those PDA's and web pads no longer exist. In many cases the companies no longer exist. Why, God? Why must they post moldy content on /. ?
How hard would it be to switch these devices over to either FreeBSD or NetBSD? This would be a cool project to work on.
Yeah, its somewhat clunky as a PDA (according to the Experts - I like it) but slap in a 256Mb SD card and load it up with mp3's, get a aux audio cable or cdrom-cassette adapter, and it is an awesome mp3 player for your car. Doesn't skip, can set to random shuffle repeat, all your favorite songs, etc. An expensive mp3(ogg) player but it runs Linux, has a Arm/RISC processor, and the James Bond keyboard is slicker than shit through a tin horn.
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Your closing sentence contradicts itself. If you were as big a fan as at least some around here, then you would buy things strictly because they are Linus Torvalds-related. People were clamoring to buy that thousand-dollar transmeta board even though it's a slow mofo, for example.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
This page has a list of systems from High End systems. The company designs robotic lighting systems, and a few years ago bought the company that designs their light boards. the whole hog lightboards run on custom rolled linux. The latest board probably runs around 15-20,000 dollars though, so it'll be a while before I buy one for my garage. :).
that in the Bizzaro universe, there are a bunch of DotSlashers posting about the attempts at porting Win-does to these closed-source Lunix monopoly products?
Electrical Test equipment. Agilent has several Linux based devises. They had plans to expand its use. But MS got a hold of them (from the inside) and convinced them to use WindowsXP for all new platforms, despite the failure of other Windows based instruments, and the advise of almost every firmware engineer in the company. When Agilent markets a Windows based instrument, they promote the fact that its Windows based. This does not sell the instrument, rather it is done to have a positive effect on stock prices. In reality, press releases that highlight Linux would be appealing to tech savy investors. And its tech savay investors that would be attracted to a company like Agilent. As it is, Agilent marketing has no incentive to do this. If antention was paid to Linux based T&M equipment, Agilent marketing might take notice. Probably not enough to countermand Microsofts wishes, but enough to make a dent.
Seriously where can you buy this stuff? I remember looking at this stuff before and then looking for a tablet to buy and none could be found... FIC Aquapad for example I went to FIC and they didn't have it for sale nor did any of their retailers sell it... I think much of that stuff is a) vaporware that vaporised with the bubble b) vaporware that has yet to be finished but will see day light. I am aware some of the products are avaiable but many seem hard to find or get...
There's a semi-port of Linux to Commodore 64 (called Lunix) and it provides very wide functionality (as for such a platform :) Personally I'd love to see a 100% C64 compatibile handheld running such thing. And I'm not talking about emulators - I just dream about a sentimental fully-featured 8-bit computer compatibile with some of the old ones (Atari, Commodore, Spectrum, Amstrad...) that's portable.
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Your son ? Self-made ???
Is this a slash dot insider joke on masturbation, or you actually managed to clone yourself ??
Does your mrs work in Transmeta? I'd be going for that blood test ASAP after junior's birth if I were you.
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ah, windows was lifted. And it SUCKS.
I don't think that the point of the article was: 'Hey these products run linux, go buy them.'
I think it was more just an encouraging note (especially to linux developers) that linux can keep up in the embedded systems market.
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When I have to upgrade the firmware of my toaster to toast a baggle I will be fulfilled. I would then die a happy techie.
Better yet, I hope we have to connect to windowsupdate to get our upgrades. Then you could 'mod' your toaster to run tostux.
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Of course not, who here would consider that? Linux users are legendary big spenders who'll throw cash at principle instead of demanding the best values. Next we'll be accused of using free software!
They have screens, some even have proper keyboards, are these really embedded systems? I always thought that an embedded system was one in which the user wasn't aware what kind of software was in it, it just did the job without command prompts, windows, or dialog boxes. As soon as you expose the operating system, you aren't embedded any more.
When I read this article, it seemed strangely familiar. Then I realised it was exactly the same article which was posted over a year ago.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Well, if newest Mercedes now called "linux gadget", i think linux therefore has no problems at all ;)
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I wish i were installed into such a car as an permanent operator-penguin
Well, dead actually. Call the sales number and you get a recording: "The sales hotline is inactive due to the closure of the company."
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
Wow, that was a great troll, I salute you.
Why not fork?
I was under the impression TiVos like my Sat-T60 are linux boxes...
I can attest to the fact that high end Cisco content engines are using the Linux kernel. I don't recall which version (we've since unplugged and returned them) but it sure surprised me when I saw the boot log.
actualy wanted to use them. Talk about dupes.
And what the other respondent said about the sig; I hadn't heard that anywhere before.
Who the fuck cares?
It's just an online news site.
The older ones were based on a BSD core. I'd love to see the internal memo documenting that switch.
Someone named an OS for me.
Back in the dotcom boom, receptionists who had traded stock options for pay did pretty well...