"Recently, several large consumer electronics companies announced a collaboration called the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) to develop further the Linux platform for use in digital home electronic devices. The founders of CELF--Matsushita Electric, Sony, Hitachi, NEC, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba--are focused on the advancement of Linux as an open-source platform for consumer electronics devices. As such, they actively are supporting and promoting the spirit of the Open Source community.
"The advantage of embedded Linux is it is a royalty free, open-source, compact solution that provides a strong foundation on which an ever-growing base of applications can run..."
