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Consumer electronics giants opt for Linux
News Given the level of interest in the consumer electronics market, the companies are also considering setting up a forum to promote the further development of Linux. Sony and Matsushita said Wednesday that, under a new joint development agreement...
[December 18, 2002, 9:32]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
News A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copy-restriction technologies. Jeff Ayars, a vice-president at Real Networks, said in a talk at LinuxWorld in Boston on...
[April 7, 2006, 10:10]
ARM backs Linux for consumer devices
News UK chip designer ARM, whose technology drives most mobile phones and recent handheld computers, said it has joined an organisation promoting the use of Linux in consumer electronics. ARM on Monday announced it has become an associate member of the...
[October 27, 2003, 16:30]
Red Hat says no to consumer Linux desktop
News Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably.
[April 18, 2008, 15:46]
Philips pushes Linux for consumer electronics
News A new project by Intel and Philips is using the Linux operating system to boost the market for converged consumer electronics. Linux is used in some consumer electronics, such as the TiVO digital video recorder, because it is freely available...
[September 5, 2002, 16:44]
CeBIT 2000: "Consumer" Linux from Finland
News Best Linux will succeed in the consumer area -- which has already been staked out by Corel -- through focusing on simplicity from the ground up, Kannesto says. On Thursday, a new Linux distribution "from the homeland of Linux" joined the already...
[February 25, 2000, 10:26]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback Some consumer choice eh? I wonder how many more (EU) politicians will sell out existing laws and consumer privileges because of ignorance on their part. Linux) should boot out DRM and what it stands for at the moment.
[April 7, 2006, 22:33]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback It's not about the "consumer experience", it's not about protecting the income of artists, it's about the record company "middle-men" protecting their bloated profits. DRM is the rich protecting their licence to print money.
[April 8, 2006, 3:17]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback DRM software will be placed on my computer over my dead body. It's MY computer and I will control what goes onto it, thank you. The day that I am required to place DRM software on it is the day it gets trucked off to the landfill site.
[April 7, 2006, 12:08]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback Well, considering that my hi definition monitors and my graphics cards are perfeclty acceptable for the next few years, but they don't support HDCP, it is pretty irrelevant whether I upgrade to Vista or go DRM free - unless Hollywood are going to...
[April 7, 2006, 13:25]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback DRM is a scheme to prevent art from going directly to the consumer without having to pay the tollbooth of the media industry. DRM is a system design to work AGAINST the consumer, not for them. Consumers do NOT want DRM.
[April 7, 2006, 19:17]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback If studios insist on putting DRM on their content such that I cannot play it on my truly Free platforms of choice (both GNU/Linux and OpenBSD at the moment), then I simply will not view that content. I echo the first two posters here.
[April 7, 2006, 19:18]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback I'm glad that Linux at this point is saying no! Ya know, if consumers would simply put their foot down and stop letting the businesses "tell us" what we have to have there wouldn't be this problem. The way I see our society (here in the U.S.is that...
[April 7, 2006, 21:03]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback There's nothing stopping someone from creating a program (open or closed source) to run DRMed content on Linux. The fact that no one has shows that Linux users don't want it (and the companies that make DRMed contentwon't make one because they don...
[April 8, 2006, 23:45]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback (Yes I know this post violates DMCA, please don't read further if you can't accept this. DMCA doesn't apply in my country) Please understand that such thing as "trusted drivers" simply doesn't work if you are going to mark SoundBlaster drivers as...
[April 9, 2006, 15:21]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback Alexander you naughty naughty boy ! This is just one of a hundred ways around the technology folks. People don't go to these lengths unless they are motivated. If the songs and films that people are breaking open were available at sensible prices...
[April 10, 2006, 12:30]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
Talkback "DRM on Linux" is an oxymoron. DRM and Linux don't mix because Linux is the exact opposite of DRM: it gives total freedom to the user. There are two problems with these demands with regards to Linux: the first is a legal problem.
[April 8, 2006, 3:32]
Preinstalled Linux on consumer PC? PC World says Yes
News The "advent 8707 Linux" PCs will be fitted with the Mandrake v6.0 Linux operating system distribution and will come with two applications: Word Perfect 8 and Star Office 5.1. PC World says the offer will be attractive to those intrigued by Linux...
[July 26, 1999, 15:48]
Consumer laptop debut for Linux
News A British company today launched a new range of Linux-optimised laptops, increasing the viability of the open-source operating system for both consumers and the mobile enterprise. Cheshire-based retail firm Digital Networks, which specialises in...
[October 18, 1999, 14:22]
Sharp hones new Linux handheld
News In the coming weeks, sources said, the consumer-electronics maker is expected to make the handheld available to developers. A consumer version is expected in the first quarter. Sharp is preparing to release a handheld computer in the United States...
[October 8, 2001, 10:27]
