Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @06:54AM from the happy-canada-day dept.

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."

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Website by WindBourne · 2003-07-01 07:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They are pushing Linux, but use Solaris for the site. huuuummmmm.

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Re:Am I the only one who read this and smiled... by confused+one · 2003-07-01 07:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But they've officially re-branded it "Windows Mobile"...
Re:Am I the only one who read this and smiled... by dasmegabyte · 2003-07-01 07:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think so. I fucking LOVE CE. Linux has a lot of catching up to do to reach the functionality of CE 4...specifically, 7 years worth of catching up.

Still, Win CE was pretty good, and quite useful, in its 1.0 incarnation, and i'm sure with that many people developing for it, Linux will do pretty wee for itCELF (ah, bad puns).

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