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Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Offtopic, I know, but where is Jon Katz? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just realized he's not posted for nigh on a year. Did he quit? Was he fired? Did he die? I couldn't find anything through web-searching.

    1. Re:Offtopic, I know, but where is Jon Katz? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I believe in the little chat that Taco and Hemos had a few weeks back that they were forced to lay him off b/c of budget problems, and that they wished that they could afford to keep him around.

  2. Oh but YOU did FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe if you didn't spend so much time staring into gaping anuses trying to figure out how to bes represent them in ASCII then maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't be such a FAILURE!

  3. Website by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  4. Re:Am I the only one who read this and smiled... by confused+one · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But they've officially re-branded it "Windows Mobile"...

  5. Re:Am I the only one who read this and smiled... by dasmegabyte · · 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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