Linux Looms Large in DVRs, PVRs

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @02:07PM from the no-pesky-license-fees dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at LinuxDevices there's a new fanless digital entertainment center reference design based on Linux and the MythTV open source DVR (digital video recorder) software. The 'Royal Linux Media Center' runs ESG's Royal Linux OS on a Transmeta development board based on its Efficeon chip. Linux has been increasingly popular in DVRs and PVRs, with examples including TiVo (of course), HP's recently unveiled Linux media hub, i3's Mood box, Interact-TV's Telly, Siemens' Speedstream, VWB's MediaReady 4000, Amino's AmiNet500, Sharp's Galileo, Dream-Multimedia-Tv's Dreambox, NEC's AX10, and Sony's CoCoon, to name a few."

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And the important part by Daedalon · 2005-01-11 17:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So does this Royal Linux OS need all the forecoming kernel patches pre-applied? I'd hate to have to recompile the kernel to be safe enough to watch the DVD / Blu-ray / whatever I just bought without random goatse popups appearing in the middle of the movie.