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	pycage	2009-10-21 , 13:04
	Posts: 3,404 \| Thanked: 4,474 times \| Joined on Oct 2005 @ Germany	#21

Originally Posted by TA-t3

And I doubt many Panasonic flat-screen owners realize they're Linux users. Maybe they'll be able to stumble over that remote-control option which shows the GPL license, if they're lucky. There are other TV vendors using Linux too. I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority turn out to do so.

I found the GPL on my plasma TV on the first day. It was a pleasant surprise.

Originally Posted by TA-t3

BTW, one of these days I'm going to try to put and SD card formatted as ext2 into a Panasonic TV (the one for slideshows), to see if it recognizes it. Their kernel is compiled with CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y

Interesting idea. Next, try to boot from SD card.

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	luca	2009-10-21 , 13:13
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Originally Posted by pycage

I found the GPL on my plasma TV on the first day. It was a pleasant surprise.

Not completely, since they try to lock it down as much as possible (it's hard to justify a difference of hundreds of dollars between models when the real difference is not even a different firmware but just a setting in the firmware).
Still, some interesting things can be done.

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	tso	2009-10-21 , 13:19
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its not that fun finding a pip button on the remote, only to discover that the model tv it was bundled with do not have the feature...

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	speculatrix	2009-10-22 , 10:35
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Panasonic have been a long-time user of linux. I recall seeing the in-flight VOD system reboot when I was last travelling with United Airlines and the penguin logo came up, it looked like a modified debian with 2.4 kernel.

Most people don't realise their TomTom devices are linux either.

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