Companies selling Linux for embedded devices such as set-top boxes took one step back and one forward Tuesday as Motorola agreed to acquire once-hot Embedix, formerly called Lineo, and Toshiba invested in MontaVista Software. Read the articles at ZDNews and LinuxDevices.
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Hey, it’s a great thing, after months of speculation, it did happen. Hopefully, Lineo and the Embedix line will be in good hands and a great future awaits for embedded linux. Oh boy, I’m so glad to have a Zaurus
Hopefully someone will continue to work and make the Indrema L600 which never came out due to lack of funding. It was supposed to be released in April 2001. The same time Maximum Linux stopped making their magazine. It would have moved linux very far along with hardware support and software devlopment and the games could have been easily ported to a normal computer for play.