Customers demand the latest technology from their vehicles, especially when it comes to entertainment. However, the development cycle for cars is much longer than that of electronics, so there's always a lag. Linux can help, writes Wind River Systems' Paul Tu.
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Linux has a heritage in the desktop market and its large community of software developers offers multiple options to support in-vehicle multimedia applications including:
* Popular, industry-standard media formats and file types * A variety of ready-to-use audio and video codecs and players * Solutions for speech recognition control and output
If you know Linux, you know there are tons of options on every level. To some, this might seem overwhelming at first. To others, it’s all about possibility. The desktop is certainly not without options. In fact, the Linux desktop might very well be the area where there are the most options. But for a lot of users, desktop selection doesn’t usually go beyond KDE or GNOME. With this article, I hope to help the average Linux user get beyond the standard fare.
The first development release in the GNOME 2.25 series that will go on to form GNOME 2.26 early next year is expected to be released today. There's still two months before any freezes go into effect for GNOME 2.26, but a few changes worth mentioning can be found in the handful of packages checked in for today's GNOME 2.25.1 release.
AMD AND REDHAT have just done the so called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors, potentially commoditising server processors. Eeek!
When One Laptop Per Child starts their next Give 1 Get 1 program on November 17th, there will be an option to purchase an upgrade that will allow users to run a standard Linux desktop based on Fedora 10, on their XO system (pronounced "ex - oh"). This special edition of Fedora 10 is an alternative for adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use. With this "Live" release the Fedora Project is once again highlighting a fantastic feature unique to modern Linux distributions.
Calao Systems is offering a faster ARM9 processor option across its line of tiny USB and QIL (quad in-line) processor modules, which come pre-installed with Linux and U-boot. It also announced a "TinyCore" module measuring 1.4 x 1.6 inches, significantly smaller than its existing products.
This time last year, it seemed downright weird - take a laptop and shrink it to the size of a hardcover book, throw in wireless Internet access, throw out the battery-draining CD-ROM drive, and sell the stripped-down device for under $500.
Windows 7 has not been released yet. Reports on it range widely from sleek and fast to being a thinly disguised version of Vista. Spreading FUD is not a reasoned response. It plays on our emotions and it comes about because those spreading it have a weakness. If you are in a strong position then you don’t need to play that card.
Additionally, export as Word file format (.doc) and the Open Document (.odt) format has been added.
Comments
Jose_X
2008-11-07 13:46:26
It's effectively the same old Microsoft sell of the "virtues" of closed source monopolies. Problem with the theory is that monopoly and secret power is not something that is shared, by those who have it, with many others. The idea is to keep people from collaborating and instead working as islands, apart from each other, making it much easier for a dominant pirate to come around and rape everyone slowly but surely.
Sometimes to gain a healthy amount you have to give a little first. If you go for too much control, you are more likely to end up controlled yourself, having allowed the tyrant to seize sufficient control.
For anyone who hasn't caught the drift here, Microsoft is the deceptive pirate and tyrant.
pcolon
2008-11-07 19:11:21
Roy Schestowitz
2008-11-07 19:38:13
"Then, they fight you"
[May 2008]
"I asked the organizers if our Free Software Group could hold a short session about the benefits of FOSS in education, with references to Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Kiwilinux and we were given a slot after the ones which had already been planned a while ago - those of Microsoft, Cisco and a local company that sells education software for Romanian schools.
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"That was two days ago but yesterday we were notified that the Microsoft representative in charge with the education strategy had requested the organizers to pull the Ubuntu presentation because it is 'unfair competition' to hold such a presentation at an event sponsored by them. They are indeed co-sponsors but the conference is organized by the Ministry of Education and its local office, and is being held on the premises of a public University.
"It is sad to know they are resorting to this sort of coercing and that they have such influence over the educators but looking on the bright side of it, and that's how I perceived it after thinking a bit about it, THEY ARE SCARED :)"
http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/05/then-they-fight-you.html