Lineo Releases Embrowser

Fourier writes "There's an article on NewsAlert that says Lineo has released Embrowser, an embedded micro browser designed for applications like set-top boxes. It is currently being ported from DR DOS to the infamous Embedix. " I guess this means that not only do we have another browser for thin-clients and low-end hardware, Linux will have more leverage in the embedded market. Licensing terms are unclear, however...

Comments

Vey Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Lineo is very, very cool. Somebody should get this thing and see if it runs on top of dosemu and post some screenshots.

I've seen the DR-DOS...

[Graymalkin]

browser at work. That little thing is one of the coolest programs I've seen before. But it seems to me a mosaic based browser (Netscape and IE4&5) would be really shitty to have on a set top box where it's easier to choose options with a directional pad that with some psuedo-mouse on a remote control.

Re:I've seen the DR-DOS...

[kijiki]

look at the URL you clicked on to get to the article. Search engines tend to highlight keywords.

Re:I've seen the DR-DOS...

[My_Favorite_Anonymou]

I used webtv for a few months (well...) Arrow keys and tab worked fine for me. By directional pad you mean a console gun kind of thing? I prefer joystrike to control the pointer.


btw, do you guys see the red blood highlight in the article? Is linux a buzz word or what?

CY

Hard on the ears

[Zico]

Exactly who do they have picking their names for them?

Lineo?

Embedix?

Embrowser?

Embarrassing.

Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

Re:Hard on the ears

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a non-event. emBrowser is just the new name for Caldera's DR WebSpyder, which has been around for quite awhile now. See http://www.lineo.com/products/products.html?2 (.) Nothing in the announcement says it's a new product announcement; apparently it's just a name change.

Re:Palm Pilot

[Alex Belits]

Hey, I'm still waiting for a palm pilot web browser that doesn't suck.. need more connectivity.. need more connectivity..

ProxiWeb works fine for me -- what do you expect, frames and javascript?

Yeah, that's nice and all...

[Anonymous Coward]

...but what ever happened to the DOSzilla project?

So, am I going to be able to get the source code..

[Anonymous Coward]

...for the embedded extensions to linux? darkharlequin

Disturbing marketing speak...

[Croaker]

From their press release:

Unlike WebTV, Embrowser Allows OEMs to Own the User Experience and Create Customized Embedded Solutions that Connect Users to the Internet via Enhanced Television Devices

Excuse me... "own the user experience"!? How about letting the user own his or her "user experience"? Makes it sound like some demented browser that you can craft to only browse what you want it to browse... Probably the stupid idea of some marketing droid.

Re:Disturbing marketing speak...

[meepzorb]

...since when are set-top boxes for the consumer market "embedded systems"?

:M

Re:Disturbing marketing speak...

[Chad Page]

Humm... I think this means that each OEM can customize their set-top boxes. OTOH, it wouldn't be that difficult to shoe-horn a consumer OS into NTSC, it would just be a matter of making sure the software didn't use small text and things like that.

Also, embedded these days means 'anything that isn't a PC' :) This can be anything from a telco platform to a set-top box to your microwave. The basic assumption is that the user can't reprogram it at will like they can with a regular PC.

Interesting. How about a cheap tiny machine

[Anonymous Coward]

This looks interesting. Does anyone know of any cheap small embedded hardware that is already built? I am for of a software guy and not really up to building anything like the Linux Simm stick. With Lineo and this browser, I think I could make some interesting things.

Re:Lineo!?

[elvum]

Hmmm, Lineo - the Open Source biscuit.

Lineo!?

[Inoshiro]

Wth! Lineo? Sounds some European chocolate. Why on earth are they in the computer business? Embeded chips in cookies not profitable enough!?!

:-)

Hopefully they'll help the Mozilla people, because that browser makes me hard just thinking about it.. DEATH TO IE! >:->

Re:Palm Pilot

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, javascript would be kinda sweet on a Palm.

Palm Pilot

[QuantumG]

Hey, I'm still waiting for a palm pilot web browser that doesn't suck.. need more connectivity.. need more connectivity..

Re:Palm Pilot

[My_Favorite_Anonymou]

Mmmmm, javascript... Top 10 pornsites popup windows.... (Can somebody enlighten me how do you do image rollover on the palm? OnMouseOver and OnClick is the same thing, no?)



CY

Re:slashdot sucks

[Inoshiro]

WOW! Now then, you suck too! Now that you're done being a weird flambaiter, perhaps you'd like to go back to making more strange sounding names for your marketting department, loser! :-)

Death To IE

[josepha48]

Microsoft it pretty much killing themselves. I installed vmware for Linux the other day. So what did I use it for? To install NT.

After installing NT I went to www.msn.com to upgrade there IE browser. Only IE 2.0 does not understand asp pages. So I could not access most of there site. I then went to www.microsoft.com to try that route only to get messages that www.microsoft.com does not exist, and that I do not ahve access to that URL.

So how do they plan on allowing someone with NT 4.0 and IE 2.0 to upgrade? YOu must get service pack 3 for NT then you can get IE 5.0, but you cannot get service pack 3, cause you cannot access there site that easily. They really know how to f*** up a wet dream don't they?

I really wish the Microsoft had never gotton into the OS business. I think that they should have stayed in the Applications market and left the software industry to others. Yes they have made some great inovations. Who can forget those lovely Crashes in Win 3.1, and GPF's?

Re:Death To IE

[Anonymous Coward]

Not as drastic as your example, but I once
tested Netscape on how their pages prevent
accessibility to browsers like lynx and just
how hostile they are to standards (pre-mozilla).
So I used lynx to try to "upgrade" my computer
with a Netscape browser, all the pages used frames
and I couldn't get in, so I emailed the webmaster/tech support (forgot what it was).
They said send them my address. So I did. Days later a large
envelop arrived in my mailbox with all the damn frames printed out! (and the quality was not very good either)
Stupid vendors.

GPL'ed code should be available!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I noticed that their web pages on GPL things
and Embedix are not yet complete... I'm hoping
they will soon add everything they just announced
and will be making GPL'ed code publicly available.

Wasn't there a prevision in the GPL stating that
you have to be able to obtain the source code to
GPL components from them? Then they should at
least be making the Linux kernel they are using
available.

Re:GPL'ed code should be available!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, that is very true, too bad that all of the components so far are thier own. Embrowix is so far under DR-DOS, which is not at all GPL (trust me, i've looked, although it's an awsome DOS). I don't know if they will port it to linux, but if they do, they will make available the linux parts. But for now, it is under thier own licence, running on top of DR-DOS.

Re:NT Sevice packs

[unitron]

NT Sevice packs are often found on video card driver cd's, "Compuserve free trial" cd's, et cetera.