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The following information is true and accurate at the time of publication.
July 1, 2003
Eight Consumer Electronic Companies
Establish "CE Linux Forum"
New Forum to focus on
the establishment and promotion of "Linux based digital
consumer electronic products"
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Sony Corporation
Hitachi, Ltd.
NEC Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,
Ltd., Sony Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., NEC Corporation,
Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,
Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today announced
the establishment of the "CE [*1] Linux Forum (CELF)".
CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions
to Linux [*2] to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual
products and cellular phones, etc. CELF will publish such
requirements and will accept and evaluate open source solutions
that support to meet the published requirements. CELF will
also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products. IBM,
an industry leader in Linux solutions and supporter of open
standards ecosystems, is pursuing membership and plans to
be an active participant in the CELF.
Linux is widely used today in personal computers and network
servers, and has been selected as an OS for CE products.
On December 18th, an announcement was made to develop Linux
for CE products and to establish a forum with the aim to
enhance Linux platform for consumer electronics devices.
CELF will first aim to improve the following:
- Further improve the startup and shutdown time
- Improve real-time capabilities
- Reduce ROM/RAM size requirements
- Improve efficiency of power management
CELF's main activities will include defining requirements
for a variety of extensions in "Linux based CE products",
collaborating and reaching consensus with open source projects
as well as with the Linux community, thereby promoting the
proliferation of CE Linux based digital electronics in the
electronics industry.
Information and member lists details will be available at:
http://www.celinuxforum.org
[*1] CE: Consumer Electronics
[*2] Linux: POSIX compatible open source OS developed in
1991 by Linus Torvalds, who was a graduate student of Helsinki
University. The source code is released under the GPL license
and the development continues [by expansion or maintenance]
by volunteers all over the world.
Linux is a registered trademark owned by Linus Torvalds
in the U.S. and other areas.
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