Ocean Blue Wins order to Develop Software for Toshiba 'Donau' "system-on-chip"
ICs
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| The new Linux-based software will allow for fast development of
| reduced component count consumer electronics products, such as
| set top boxes (STBs), integrated digital televisions (iDTVs),
| personal video recorders (PVRs), and combination hard disk/DVD
| recorder systems.
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http://www.digitaltvnews.net/items/070706oceanblue.htm
Quite a big step for such a Windows-centric company (HD-DVD, poor Linux support
on laptops).
Related:
Toshiba Italy mulls pre-loaded Linux notebooks
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| Toshiba's Italian channel sales and marketing operation reportedly
| is considering offering pre-loaded Linux in its Tecra, Satellite, Portege,
| and Qosmio notebook lines, according to a story published online last week
| in the Il Sole newspaper.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9644921792.html
Toshiba Gigabeat Added to Rockbox
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| 2006-12-29: Toshiba Gigabeat builds added to the CVS build table and the
| daily builds.
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http://www.rockbox.org/
Some Toshiba portable computers cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista?
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| An article was added to Microsoft's Knowledge Base yesterday that I
| found rather curious. Titled Some Toshiba portable computers cannot
| be upgraded to Windows Vista, it says "These portable computers were
| originally manufactured and designed to support only Microsoft Windows
| XP".
|
| [...]
|
| Specifically designed for XP only? How do you do that? I looked at the
| specs for a few of these, and they seemed within reason to run Vista
| on. Enough RAM, enough processor, enough Hard drive. I noticed that
| one that I looked at listed a video card that had DirectX 8.1
| optimized drivers, where 'Vista Capable' requires at least DirectX 9.
| Is that one thing the deal breaker?
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http://itsvista.com/2007/04/some-toshiba-portable-computers-cannot-be-upgraded-to-windows-vista/
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