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Open Source at CES

CES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, held every year in Las Vegas, has just wrapped up. Sadly I’m wasn’t there, but luckily Doc Searls has been at CES keeping track of Linux and Open Source stuff at the show. As usual there are more Linux based devices that you’d realise or that many press outlets (save Doc and a few others) would let you know about. A smattering of devices from ‘Oh, so it runs Linux’ files; Motorola’s settop box and RAZR2 V8, iRobot vacuum cleaners, Dish Networks VIP722 PVR, a whole host of Intel MID devices.

What was interesting is that this seems to be the first year that truly open devices started appearing. Our friends from OpenMoko were there, as were Dash with the Dash Express a GPS based on the OpenMoko hardware. (NB, like Doc, I’d like to give kudos to OpenMoko for running Linux on the laptops on their booth).

Also it would seem Buglabs were one of the hits of the show (they were nominated for Best of CES by C|Net). Their hardware looks really cool with the BUBbase and BUGmodules adding near infinite possibilities for creative usage. I really liked this photo from Doc of Angel Roman’s setup (Angel is a Buglabs engineer), featuring a Lenovo X61 running (Ubuntu) Linux, a Nokia N810, and a Motorola (Linux based) ROKR phone, and the BUGbase and modules (on the left).