In December, Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial (nyse: MC - news - people ), known for its Panasonic products, announced a partnership to develop a Linux-based platform for the home.
Industry sources say China's e28, a fast-growing Linux smart phone specialist, could also grab a piece of the action.
The operating system is also on products from TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) recently announced that it would offer a Linux-based cell phone.
In addition, the 10.8-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet has arrived at the FCC from Asia, a large Linux-based e-reader.
Alongside the HTC-made handset are an altitude and orbit control system, two propulsion setups and a Linux-based computer with a "high-speed" processor.
Matthew Pavlovich, founder of the LiViD project and president of the Dallas-based technology startup Media Driver, testified Friday that DeCSS was critical in developing a Linux-based DVD player.
By utilizing Red Bend's mobile virtualization software, vLogix MobileTM, it is possible to enable the coexistence of multiple OSes running on a single CPU. In this cooperation, Panasonic and Red Bend have introduced an environment in which a Linux-based OS and the Android platform coexist.
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The company, besides supporting Windows, is backing a Linux-based variant in partnership with Nokia Corp.
One strong candidate is Meego, a Linux-based project first announced by Intel and Nokia in Feb. 2010.
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Her blog, Groklaw, sprang up in 2003 to cover a Linux-related lawsuit that software firm SCOGroup had filed against IBM.
It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004.
The team managed to recreate cell division using the model, although a single pass took almost 10 hours with MATLAB software running on a 128-core Linux cluster.
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Working in the Evo's favor is the fact that it's really nothing more than a Linux-based computer that relies entirely on off the shelf parts like an overclocked Athlon 64x2 5600 processor and ATI Radeon 3200 graphics.
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If you do work up the arm strength and fashion courage to lug this thing outside, however, you'll find that quick connectivity is greatly enhanced by Splashtop, which allows you to quickly boot to a Linux-based shell and run a browser.
Today, thousands of designers, makers, hobbyists and engineers have adopted BeagleBone for its one-of-a-kind functionality as a credit-card-sized Linux computer that connects with the Internet and runs software such as Android 4.0 and Ubuntu.
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Packed in their 7-by-2-foot titanium-framed fiberglass bodies are terabytes of cellphone flash storage, a dual-core ARM processor running open Linux software, a battery pack, sensor arrays, a GPS unit, and wireless and satellite communications systems.
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The importance of employing high-availability techniques increases as more software (including a bigger-footprint OS like Linux) is being put into devices, Bunell explained, especially since 60 percent of faults are software faults.
The third-generation Gobi modem chipsets also have an integrated application processor and hardware accelerators with a feature rich, Linux-based application development environment and optional mobile access point software stack.
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Motorola sees a future of Linux-based software and carrier-courting services, neither of which is met by iTunes.
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Since March, the 45-employee firm has been offering 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week telephone support for most versions of Linux.
Upstarts have begun using a version of Linux--the freeware that hurt profits at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard--for their Cisco-killer products.
Bottomley has already overcome most of these challenges, although he's still waiting for a Linux Foundation-specific key that should theoretically clear a major hurdle.
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Note that they don't say "Linux-powered Treo" LinuxDevices.com seems to think that Palm is going to introduce a line of Linux-powered "feature phones".
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For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
If we had to guess, we'd probably say that it's Moto, since they already have a few different Linux-powered smartphones on the market and so would probably be receptive to the new Linux-based version of the Palm OS that's in the works, but LG's been pushing out in some interesting directions lately, so it wouldn't be shocking if it were them, either.
As we previously reported, the specs on their production quad-band S101 model leave little to be desired as folding smartphones go, with 128MB of RAM, 64MB of ROM, a 2-megapixel shooter, 400MHz of the XScale PXA263 variety, and Qtopia's mobile Linux platform in a 210-gram package.
Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
Vij points to an all-in-one computer sold in China that runs Linux and uses a MIPS-based processor.
From there, you can install virtual versions of almost any other operating system--be it an old copy of Window's XP or a fresh copy of the latest Linux-based Ubuntu release.
It's designed by former Nokia engineers who claim they've used their mobile skills to make the Leikr catch a quicker GPS signal, connect directly to a cloud-based, Endomondo-integrated exercise portal using WiFi and Linux-based software, and at the same time stick to a smartphone-like 10mm thickness.
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