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CE Linux -- 1 Year Old And Growing Fast

Posted by timothy on from the put-that-in-your-electronic-pipe-and-smoke-it dept.

An anonymous reader submits "The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) celebrated its one-year anniversary today by releasing its first Specification and Reference Implementation. The Specification is a 67-page document aimed at guiding system developers interested in creating or extending individual technologies in Linux for use in consumer electronic (CE) devices. The Reference Implementation is a fully patched source tree supporting nine target boards. CELF is an industry consortium founded by Sony and Matsushita, and chartered with steering the development of a version of Linux for use in embedded CE products."

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  1. Uhh - CE is not like windoze CE, dippy... by Shoeler · · Score: 2, Informative

    CE - Consumer Electronics - is not even remotely about handhelds. Considering how Sony just cancelled their Clie, I seriously doubt their membership in this organization is about handhelds.

    What I see its potential use is for things like Home Audio receivers, DVD players, etc that could really use technologies like firewire for sending the entire audio and video stream across a single cable, and then making it available on your network.

    Tell me that wouldn't be cool - and to have the Sony quality and use my sony remote. ^_^

  2. Much Like uClinux by william_lorenz · · Score: 3, Informative

    This sounds much like uClinux, which specifically targets boards without MMUs (memory management units). uClinux already runs on tons of target boards and platforms, including older Cisco 2500 / 3000 / 4000 routers. It's commonly used on smaller embedded devices, such as the Actiontec Dual PC Modem and Linksys WRT45G.