Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum

Adam Wern writes "Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today announced the establishment of the CE Linux Forum. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF will publish such requirements and will accept and evaluate open source solutions that support to meet the published requirements. CELF will also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products. IBM, an industry leader in Linux solutions and supporter of open standards ecosystems, is pursuing membership and plans to be an active participant in the CELF."

Comments

Re:J2ME

[MisterFancypants]

"CE" stands for Consumer Electronics.

I think your brain is getting tripped up on "Windows CE" and is thinking CE == PDA, which is not at all the case. PDAs are a very small subset of all consumer electronics.

Re:long awaited replacement to RS-232?

[drinkypoo]

I2C is an alternative to RS-232. Actually, it's an alternative to RS-422. SMBus has some usefulness as well but I2C, I think, is closer to "where it's at".