CE Linux -- 1 Year Old And Growing Fast

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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9 steps to greasing your poop chute for YODA DOLL

[Anonymous Coward]

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
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1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. Defecation could be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda can use witch-hazel on mouth to soothe the horrific burns from performing so much analingus.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Doll/Shampoo/Soap-on-a-rope.
5. Pucker your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in.
6. Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
7. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's big!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't check the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you can't afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a Yoda voice and saying, use the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.

All in a days work with a Yoda figurine rammed up your ass.

I HAVE A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS!

GO LINUX!!

Tux is the result after trimming Yoda's ears off so that Lunix people don't rip themselves a new Asshole

It would be nice to see....

[XaviorPenguin]

....more Linux PDA's out in the market besides the Sharp Zaurus EL 5500. That has Embeddix (Linux version for the PDA). If Linux takes hold on the PDA Market, Microsoft might have a run for its money! :D

acronym

[Anonymous Coward]

hmmm.... something better than WINCE. LINCE? no good. I've got it!

GRIMACE: the GNU something something something something Consumer Electronics.

and now to just think of the rest of the words...

Re:acronym

[AKAImBatman]

I vote for LiCE. "Sticks to you like a used hat!" :-P

Embedded Linux.

[torpor]

If you have to look at it to notice its there, its not embedded enough.

The strength of embedded linux is its invisibility, not its market share.

Re:Embedded Linux.

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

True, it's best not to let non-techies hear the word 'Linux'. They run. I know a few that did.

However they should find some way of advertising the (possible) interconnectivity and compatability of these devices. Maybe someday your watch will be able to talk to your video and TV via your cellphone attached to your PDA. This can probobly be done already by a tech head with too much time on his hands.

Considering Sony are involved, will this mean that the next playstation will run on embedded linux? Maybe a small sony distro embedded?

MS is already moving down the embedded devices market with Home media center I think.

Uhh - CE is not like windoze CE, dippy...

[Shoeler]

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. ^_^

Much Like uClinux

[william_lorenz]

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.

Re:Much Like uClinux

[Anonymous Coward]

MMUs are in the CPU not the board. Anyway CPU without a MMU is pretty useless as it couldn't address any Memory or use periperals.