Running Linux an Archos Multimedia Player

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday July 30, 2004 @10:07AM from the portable-penguins dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new project is developing a Linux port for Archos portable multimedia harddisk player/recorders. The LinAV project began in April, and has focused initially on the AV3xx-series devices, so far releasing a working kernel and a build environment for graphical applications based on the nano-X API. The LinAV project appears to be the first to actually achieve a Linux port to an Archos product. LinAV is based on uClinux, the version of Linux for devices based on processors without a memory management unit (MMU). However, at CEBIT last year, Archos was rumored to have a next-generation AV500 portable multimedia player that appeared to be running Linux."

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First Pr0n by fputs(shit,+slashdot · 2004-07-30 10:18 · Score: 1

mobile phone, poratable music, DVD, PDA and handheld game machine are converging. Why still pretend there is viable market for non multifunction portable?

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1. Re:First Pr0n by Leroy_Brown242 · 2004-07-30 10:21 · Score: 1
  
  It won't happen until they can make a device that does all those things, well, and in the same small package.
  
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For old times' sake... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-30 10:23 · Score: 0

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!