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Linux Devices Coming To Market

Linux Devices Coming To Market

Postby rippinchikkin » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:20 pm

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By Jacqueline Emigh
October 6, 2006 01:31:23 PM

Business and consumer users will soon be hooking up their Windows-based desktop and mobile PCs to more Linux-enabled devices, as witnessed by a new multimedia storage box from HP as well as the planned announcement of new wireless hardware from Symbol later this month.

Somewhat hidden within HP's launch of otherwise Windows-driven consumer products last week was the fact that the HP Media Vault, one of the newly announced entries, uses embedded Linux underneath the covers. At the same time, HP's new PC gaming division, now being forged out of HP's recent Voodoo acquisition, is taking a more than serious look at adding Linux machines to its previously Windows-only line-up.

Meanwhile, vertical market maven Symbol Technologies is talking up intentions to roll out the AP 5081--a new Linux-based wireless access point at the end of October. HP and Symbol have both been close partners of Microsoft's for many years on end. So why did HP pick Linux as one of the operating environments for its new Media Vault, a portable hard drive unveiled along with two new PCs at a press conference in New York City last week?

And what's prompted Symbol to pick Linux as the embedded OS for its wireless APs, including the upcoming, ultra-"ruggedized" 5081? In interviews with LinuxPlanet, spokespersons for the two OEMs offered two very different sets of reasons.

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