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Re: [News] Linux Emerges as Preferred Platform for Set-top Boxes

__/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Thursday 22 March 2007 04:17 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Linux versions of software for set-top boxes
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Ocean Blue Software, a specialist digital TV software developer, has
>> | released Linux versions of its Sunrise, Voyager, and SurfSoft
>> | software products, with ports to the leading hardware platforms
> 
> I'd love to see Apple and MS stopped in this regard.   There is absolutely
> no reason to have anything but a Linux kernel in a "set top box" as far as
> the consumer is concerned.

Marketing and integration are probably the only barriers, but TiVo never
struggled.

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