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To: DiViT who wrote (44904)	9/16/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Nokia(a C-Cube customer) has a Linux box........... it-director.com Nokia's Linux box sets standards Wednesday, 15th September 1999 There's an interesting battle developing for operating software to drive wireless multimedia devices. Not the battle with Microsoft this time, but the more obscure battle between Symbian and Linux. Nokia is one of the founders of the Symbian operation that promotes the EPOC system, originally developed by Psion. But Nokia's prototype multimedia terminal uses Linux. Earlier this year, Linus Torvalds said that he would like to see less emphasis on Linux as a high end server operating system and more emphasis on its use for embedded systems. It seems that someone at Nokia was listening and the DVB@Air prototype uses Linux. The device uses a neat combination of technologies, with data being sent out using digital television and the return signal travelling by wireless GSM. A range of Internet, television and telephony services are available from this one unit. Physical presentation is a tablet format. Home automation applications are expected in future as extensions to products of this kind. Under the covers, Nokia have confirmed that the operating system is Linux and the web browser is Mozilla. This could well be a major victory for the open source movement, as current experiments are likely to form the basis of consumer products that will sell in very large numbers. In our comments on digital TV yesterday, we pointed out that the standard setting there involved Java. If Nokia's prototype is anything to go by, we may see a strong movement towards embedded systems based on the twin pillars of Linux and Java.