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Ubuntu Bringing Linux to your TV

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jan 9, 2012

“Linux on TVs is nothing new and shouldn’t come as a surprise.
If you’ve got a DVR device, a Texas Instruments chip, an ‘enhanced’
media device (WD, seagate, boxee etc..) you’ve already got a Linux
TV. What Ubuntu is doing here is associating their brand of Linux
(and make no mistake about it, Canonical is doing its best to push
Ubuntu as a brand) for consumer electronics vendors.

Will it succeed?


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Sean Michael Kerner

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