Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Jun 2009 14:47 UTC, submitted by Adam Dunkels
OSNews, Generic OSes Contiki 2.3 has just been released. Contiki is an operating system for networked embedded systems that provides low-power IP networking even for the smallest of systems, and includes the world's smallest IPv6 stack. Among other things the 2.3 release includes a new IPv6 routing architecture, a set of new shell commands, and a Twitter client.
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WTF .....
by silicon on Sat 27th Jun 2009 18:55 UTC
silicon
Member since:
2005-07-30

A twitter client?

RE: WTF .....
by JrezIN on Sat 27th Jun 2009 20:15 UTC in reply to "WTF ....."
JrezIN Member since:
2005-06-29

what could be better than a hello world app? an app that actually does it?

RE: WTF .....
by TommyCarlier on Sun 28th Jun 2009 13:09 UTC in reply to "WTF ....."
TommyCarlier Member since:
2006-08-02

A Twitter client actually makes sense: Contiki was made to run on all kinds of sensors, and now these sensors can automatically and autonomously tweet their sensor data to the people that are interested.

And now you can tweet from your Commodore 64. :-)

Hilarious
by JLF65 on Sat 27th Jun 2009 21:41 UTC
JLF65
Member since:
2005-07-06

I find it rather funny that on a site called OSnews that news about an actual OS is on page two, while news unrelated to an OS makes the front page. ;)

RE: Hilarious
by sbergman27 on Sat 27th Jun 2009 22:41 UTC in reply to "Hilarious"
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

I find it rather funny that on a site called OSnews that news about an actual OS is on page two, while news unrelated to an OS makes the front page. ;)

I'm finding it convenient to simply focus my attention on Page 2. "Page 1" officially means "news that Thom and the gang feel like writing an editorial about", which sometimes seems constrained to opinions on music and the legal battles surrounding stealing/infringing/liberating/whatever music.

The really interesting stuff is on Page 2, and is refreshingly free of intrusive and annoying "My Take" style supra-posts.

Edited 2009-06-27 22:41 UTC

RE[2]: Hilarious
by JLF65 on Mon 29th Jun 2009 17:36 UTC in reply to "RE: Hilarious"
JLF65 Member since:
2005-07-06

"I find it rather funny that on a site called OSnews that news about an actual OS is on page two, while news unrelated to an OS makes the front page. ;)

I'm finding it convenient to simply focus my attention on Page 2. "Page 1" officially means "news that Thom and the gang feel like writing an editorial about", which sometimes seems constrained to opinions on music and the legal battles surrounding stealing/infringing/liberating/whatever music.

The really interesting stuff is on Page 2, and is refreshingly free of intrusive and annoying "My Take" style supra-posts.
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Funny, but that's what I've been doing more recently as well. I find myself over on Page 2 much more often than previously.

@license_2_blather: I've been watching Contiki since about 1.2 or so. It's really a very interesting project, trying to bring out the best of such limited devices. Surfing the web with IPv6 on an Apple II or C64?? Who'd a thunk it. ;)

RE: Hilarious
by license_2_blather on Sun 28th Jun 2009 15:16 UTC in reply to "Hilarious"
license_2_blather Member since:
2006-02-05

Hey, it's Thom's site, after all.

At least he has the Page 2 so you don't have to wade through those articles you don't like.

Oh, yeah, Contiki -- this is such an innovative effort, and a fine rebuke to the exponential code growth that plagues software development today. I thinking it might make the basis of a cool home automation project.

twitter client in less than 2k..
by TObYv on Sun 28th Jun 2009 01:29 UTC
TObYv
Member since:
2008-08-25

give this man the nobel prize for awesome!