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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."
7 of them.
Oh. Wait. I didn't subscribe. Thank GOD!
It's the space between...
I hope I actually got 1st post this time....... I've been late too much already..
modded DOWN?!? Stop the presses!!! Call a general strike!
Does anyone know where I can find I list of MS-based gadgets and devices? I'd like to know, as my 4-year-old needs things to tear apart and build things with. He has broken most of his electronic toys already.
This bloated Linux is not my cup of tea. Real computers use CP/M, not this fru fru looking Line-ux.
Don't you mean that request you received from ThunkGeek to talk these up in a marketing kind of way?
How transparent.
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.
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Geeks apprehended in Child Poronography Bust", "Geek publicy shamed after holding girl's hand." "Damn, shower-ridden geeks. They're all alike." But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the geek? Did you ever wonder what made him suck cock, what forces shaped his penis so small, what may have molded him? I am a geek, enter my world. Mine is a world that begins with slashdot. I'm smarter than most of the other moderators, this crap they post bores me. "Damn goatse troll. They're all alike." I'm in by dark, cool basement. I've listened to those people with lives upstairs explain for the fifteenth time how to get some fine pussy. I understand it (not!). "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't take my acne medicine. CowboyNeal ate it." "Damn CowboyNeal. He probably did eat it. They're always gettin eaten by that tub-o-lard." I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me, or feels threatened by me, or thinks I'm a smart ass, or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here. Damn geek. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... goatse opened to the world...rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from day-to-day incompetencies is sought...slashdot is found. "This is it...this is where I belong..." I know everyone here...even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again...I know you all...Damn geeks. Stinking up the basement again. They're all alike...You bet your ass we're all alike...we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak (not!)...the bits of meat that you did let slip through were later on stolen by CowboyNeal (true!). We've been dominated by sadists, or eaten by CowboyNeal. The few trolls that have something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now...the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty and the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons (ie, CowboyNeal), and you call us criminals. We explore...and you call us losers. We seek after knowledge...and you call us criminals. We exist without girlfriends, without nationality, without religious bias...and you call us criminals. You have girlfriends, you have suntans, you socialize, fuck, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the losers with friends like CowboyNeal. Yes, I am a geek. My crime is that of a loser. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a geek, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all...after all, we've all got horse cocks (not! perhaps a few).
It lets me know which products not to buy.
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
Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
WARNING! ALARUM! Parent has placed hidden and instantly executing links in the message to Al-Qaeda recruitment pages, child pornography caches, and pro-homosexual propaganda. The server running this site has been compromised by this stealth exploit! This only affects HTML on Linux. Linus Torvalds has instructed all system admins to patch their servers with Windows XP Datacenter.
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).
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
from the stuff-to-lust-after dept.
I lust after beatiful women. If a fountain pen running Linux gets you hot and bothered, hey, to each his own, I guess.
There are only so many things you can do with that pen (ha ha you have dirty mind) .. but the right woman can keep you happy for a lifetime. I suggest you folks work on finding Mrs. Right instead of playing with Mr. Penguin every night (again you have a dirty mind).
Well unless this gadget has WiFi built-in. Then I guess maybe I could hold off on the woman. Look, I can make the light blink whenever it finds an access point!! Cool!!!!! Just echo 1 > /dev/light! Woo hoo! Awesome! LOOK!!! L1NUX R00LZZ0RS!!!
I've seen several posts recently where people complain about having "infinite" Meta-Mod points. Almost like it's a burden.
... remove bad moderators from the M1 eligibility pool."
It most certainly is not. It is a gift to patient, karma-whoring trolls. Read the Meta-Mod FAQ.
Say you encounter a typical "OMG BILL GATES IS TEH SATAN!" post by, say, circletimessquare. It's been duly modded up as "Insightful" by some unknown editor or slashbot. Why not Meta-Mod that as "unfair"? Sure, you won't have any significant effect on either the poster's karma or the person who modded them up, but you will "help
Similarly, suppose you encounter a post by a troll seething with racism and hatred. It's been duly modded down as "Troll" or "Flamebait". This too is "unfair"! That post increased the noise, and as such was very valuable. It belongs in +2 territory with something by Perens, surely! Whoever modded that down should be removed from the moderation eligibility pool, post haste!
(Note that you don't have to support the racist shite in the post. The poster probably doesn't either; he's just doing it for the reaction.)
This is the same thing that happens to positive-karma troll accounts when they upmod a troll. They're found out in Meta-Mod, and lose their ability to moderate.
It's time the trolls use the same weapons as the slashbots! If you moderate, use "-1 Overrated" since those don't get Meta-Modded. And Meta-Mod whenever you get the chance! I mark almost everything as "unfair", though I occasionally see a very obvious troll being upmodded, which I mark as "fair" or leave alone.
Either that, or just have fun. Whichever.
P.s. FUCK YOU, michael
I was shocked. Wish I knew who the company was that made them. Neat.
A winner is you!
Most of them don't have a MMU, so the system crashes just as often as windoze CE :(
... that some of us still shop based on "buy the best product overall based on features, price, and reliability" principle rather than the "if it's 6 degrees from Linus Himself, get it!"?
I'm as big a fan of Linux as the rest of you, but when it comes down to hard-earned cash expenditures, I vote with my wallet and my brain, not my heart (which years for Linux).
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?
It can serve even the best slashdotting
http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=208307
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.
e iv ers/dishpvr721/index.shtml
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!
Can someone post some great porn links? None of the crap like NineNine, the Bill Gates cocksucker has in his sigs..
Stuff like http://www.video-post.com/thumbview is what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance,
Horny Devil
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?
Hello sir. Please help me with my virtual crack addiction
Goatse-free
Jesus fucking Christ people, get a hold of yourselves.
Just an hour ago ago, American watched as two brave souls gave it their all on stage in front of millions of American Idol fans as Clay and Reuben attempted to become just the second Idols in what was the closest contest ever. The two contestants received over 24 million votes in total, yet the margin of victory was less than 2 thousand votes. Reuben Studdard ended up being crowned the champion, but there are 12 million Americans who are extremely upset because Reuben was not their choice for the next American Idol.
And here we are, as belligerent as ever, browsing Slashdot cluelessly and reading about the latest Linux gadgets. Great.
You clowns need to be lambasted by a clue-by-four. Get your priorities straight.
Let's work on the important things first and then move on to refining the Linux operating system.
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.
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.
Clickety Click
(Updated Mar. 21, 2002)
Jesus, CmdrTaco, can't you find something less ancient to post? What about your belly-button lint? Or how you've started deleting JEs and posts?
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...
much worse than goatse
My soon-to-be-born son will run linux!!!Children a product of the future!
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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Check it out! Linux based crack!
choose me
Your son ? Self-made ???
Is this a slash dot insider joke on masturbation, or you actually managed to clone yourself ??
If the latest revalations regarding IBM's possible leakage of copyrighted Unix code into Linux have proven anything, it is that using any derivative of this outdated operating system is a legal disaster waiting to happen. Not only is Linux licensed under the anti-business GNU General Public License, but it turns out that commercial code may have been unlawfully added, making it illegal to use or distribute.
This should suprise no one familiar with the history of Unix. The earliest version was an unlicensed ripoff of the proprietary Multics operating system, and was partly responsible for destroying the market for this pioneering operating system. The Berkeley Shareware Distribution (BSD) was sued by AT&T in the early 1990s, for openly distributing copyrighted code in its public-domain source releases. As if this wasn't enough, it turned out that AT&T had also broken the license on code they had taken from BSD, leaving both sides forced to essentially accept the other's illegal behavior in order to avoid stiffer penalties.
Reputable software companies such as Microsoft, though initially interested in Unix, have learned to steer clear of the mess of standards, licenses, and conflicting intellectual property rights that Unix forms. Microsoft Windows XP is the latest release of Microsoft's flagship version of Windows, built from the ground up in the early 1990s based on the most modern concepts in operating systems, without any legacy baggage from the 1970s. And it is available essentially for free, preloaded on hardware from all major manufacturers. There is really no reason to use anything else, unless you need a truly high-performance computing system such as IBM's proprietary OS/390 or HP's OpenVMS.
ah, windows was lifted. And it SUCKS.
Alozade & Hollow Point - Under Mi Sensi - Clappers Riddim
Sensi-millia,
Yea, this ones for all you smoka's,
South Rockas Crew!
Yea, my gosh
Herbalist ya know
Herbal healin all the nation
Sent from creation
Well this is Alozade
along side Vegas
along side Hollow Point
Yo, light up on me that joint
Its in my brain, my gosh
its in my brain
Under mi sensi, mi under mi sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi
Well mi found the best high grade, which is the west's high grade
Mi take mi last money, an go invest high grade
An before mi puff mi chalice, mi hafa bless high grade
so give mi more, come on don't want less high grade
Mi get impress high grade, no fed-express high grade
Babylon come and raid an want mi less high grade
Want charge mi conceal, and possess high grade
But when dem gone, I go an buy the next high grade
Its in my brain, no cocaine
I dont wanna, I dont wanna go insane
Its in my brain, no cocaine
I dont wanna, I dont wanna go insane
Under mi sensi, mi under mi sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi
Well mi found the best high grade, which is the west's high grade
Mi take mi last money, an go invest high grade
An before mi puff mi chalice, mi hafa bless high grade
so give mi more, come on don't want less high grade
Mi get impress high grade, no fed-express high grade
Babylon come and raid an want mi less high grade
Want charge mi conceal, and possess high grade
But when dem gone, I go an buy the next high grade
Big up all a di Jamaican posse
Cause y'all know we have the greatest sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi sensi
Under mi sensi, mi under mi
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machines.
Now that I am 30, it's time to make some changes. Birthdays, like New Year's, are time for reflection. It's a time to take inventory and work towards self improvement.
Change does not necessarily mean making a resolution. It's true that life would be better if my waist line was thinner, if my bank account was fatter and if (by some miracle) I could finally keep the vow of being nicer to everyone I met.
Like you, I've made those promises in the past, only to be disappointed by failure. At 30 it's time to be realistic. No longer will I be held hostage to unattainable resolutions. The changes I'm promising to make, are things where there's actually a fighting chance of success.
For instance, from here on out, I'm going to make it a point to remember my pump number at the gas station. That's something that never bothered me in my 20's. The irresponsibility of youth would allow to me walk to the counter totally clueless of the crucial information.
It made prepaying virtually impossible: "What pump are you on?" The clerk would always ask.
"I don't know. The one with the blue truck." I'd tell her.
"Oh, you mean pump 8?" she would say.
"Sounds good to me," I would respond in total confusion and walk away never really sure if I just paid for someone else's gas.
That type of behavior may have been acceptable in my 20's, but not now.
Things are also going to change when it comes to my music habits, too. Not the type of music I listen to, that will stay the same. But the way I buy music will change. From now on, I promise to only purchase a CD if I've heard at least two songs on the album. My music collection is filled with CDs that have one good song and nine bad songs. That's just not appropriate behavior for a mature man of this advanced age.
In this next decade old photos will actually bring me comfort not despair. How much time was wasted in my 20's getting depressed over old pictures? It's true the images captured on film were often of a thinner Doug with much more hair, but that will no longer get me down. One of the changes I'll make is to accept the physical change that has already taken place.
If the following phrase should come out of my mouth: "I'll give you a call this weekend so we can get together," this time I am actually going to mean it. I've muttered those words too often in the past, only in the hopes that by the time Friday rolled around there would be a better offer on the table. Being friends with someone in their 30's is knowing you are not just a "plan B."
If my clothes aren't clean, you can take it to the bank that I won't wear them anymore. Women won't understand this promise. Most men will understand, especially when it comes to socks. "Oh these don't smell too bad, I can get away with wearing them one more time." That promise should have been made after my college graduation. At 30, it's better late than never.
Speaking of socks: if a pair doesn't match after doing the laundry than the single partner will be thrown away. Being young is all about being hopeful. Being an adult though is all about facing reality. The sad truth is once a sock is gone, it stays gone. Of course the moment the lonely partner is thrown, I know the old sock will suddenly reappear.
I am also going to start throwing away hangers. My closet is full with wire hangers provided by the dry cleaners. They seem to be multiplying like rabbits. "Why throw them away?" a younger Doug may have asked. "One day I'll have enough clothes for all those hangers." Only a seasoned individual would realize that there's such a thing as having too many clothes, so the hangers will have to go.
None of these changes will make the world a better place to live. The new and improved Doug won't live longer or look better. In fact, most of my friends won't even notice a difference.
In my 20's all that would have bothered me. Not now. Because the ultimate change I'll make in the next decade is to learn how to appreciate the quieter success.
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.
--Thei Antispamist A useless endevor that will cer
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, 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"
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...