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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. After all... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    "CELF" is easier to pronounce than "CEGnu/LF"...

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. I find it interesting by Kardax · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that they're using FrontPage to make a website promoting Linux...

    -Kardax

  3. BSD/linux by joe_bruin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    actually, a company i used to work for created linux-based CE devices. however, the userland was entirely BSD derived (mostly in crunched binaries) and proprietary closed source software. as with most other CE's, we found little use for the GNU tools in the device itself (obviously we used the gnu development toolchain).

    every once in a while, some jackass tried to tell us that we're not using "linux", we're using "GNU/Linux". we'd correct him, we use "BSD/Linux".

  4. Fantastic by ad0le · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the true spirit of linux.

    Given the magnitude of the invoilved companies, I think this is a great step toward linux. Of the companies listed I own atleast one product from each and think a standardized front end to a broad range of devices is a wonderful idea.

    Given the fact that almost every CE device has a frontend nowadays, it would be great if these guys pooled thier resources and created a standardized UI/Widget set that was highly portable and robust enough to handle the demands that these devices would require.

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    My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
  5. Re:J2ME by MisterFancypants · · Score: 5, Informative
    "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.