CNET News.com: Caldera adding Linux to set-top boxes

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Stephen Shankland
May 11, 1999

“Caldera Thin Clients has decided to augment its set-top box
software with a Linux product, the company’s chief executive said
today.”

“Caldera Thin Clients, the sister company to Linux seller
Caldera Systems, decided to add Linux because it can be translated
to run on many different chips and because the next generation of
set-top boxes come with sufficient memory to run the upstart
operating system, said Bryan Sparks, founder of Caldera and the
chief of Caldera Thin Clients.”

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