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With steam machines it might well be (or perhaps the year of Linux in the living room).

gilgoomesh 12y ago
Linux is already in the living room. Linux already powers many (most?) smart TVs, many digital video recorders and all Android devices.
- lmedinas 12y ago
  And also in Cars, Mobile except the traditional Desktop computer.
- pjmlp 12y ago
  The kernel sure. User space, not really.
  - danellis 12y ago
    You're talking about GNU, not Linux. Linux is the kernel space.
    - pjmlp 12y ago
      When people say "It is the year of Linux of the desktop", they mean GNU. Long time GNU/Linux user since 1995.
      - danellis 12y ago
        Not so much for "Linux in the living room, though", as gilgoomesh said. > Long time GNU/Linux user since 1995. What of it?
- watt 12y ago
  LG webOS based TVs are basically Linux. And it's great.
  - nieve 12y ago
    The older webOS devices are incredibly hackable on the software end compared to any other consumer electronics devices I've dealt with. Far more open than Android, much closer to an old-school Linux distro even then some desktop distros, easy dev unlocking (and good tools!), and Palm/HP even used .ipk as their package format. I loved my old Palm Pre and HP Touchpad until they both eventually died violent deaths (technically one still runs after a 5-story fall onto marble, but it's not happy). The homebrew community rather quickly got an X server working complete with a couple of common desktop environments. Or rather I should say X servers plural, you could launch more than one and flick between them like any native app. With a bluetooth keyboard and mouse I could work much more comfortably than with the exact same hardware running Cyanogenmod. Being able to do Perl/Ruby development and run a real RDBMS is possible on Android, but it's not natural. When webOS came out GUI was also more pleasant than Android or iOS for a lot of things and definitely better at multitasking, but they couldn't compete in the market. Luckily some of the webOS UI folks ended up at Google and Apple (and some had come from there), so things like the Android notification system benefited.

Linux is already in the living room. Linux already powers many (most?) smart TVs, many digital video recorders and all Android devices.

lmedinas 12y ago
And also in Cars, Mobile except the traditional Desktop computer.
pjmlp 12y ago
The kernel sure. User space, not really.
- danellis 12y ago
  You're talking about GNU, not Linux. Linux is the kernel space.
  - pjmlp 12y ago
    When people say "It is the year of Linux of the desktop", they mean GNU. Long time GNU/Linux user since 1995.
    - danellis 12y ago
      Not so much for "Linux in the living room, though", as gilgoomesh said. > Long time GNU/Linux user since 1995. What of it?
watt 12y ago
LG webOS based TVs are basically Linux. And it's great.
- nieve 12y ago
  The older webOS devices are incredibly hackable on the software end compared to any other consumer electronics devices I've dealt with. Far more open than Android, much closer to an old-school Linux distro even then some desktop distros, easy dev unlocking (and good tools!), and Palm/HP even used .ipk as their package format. I loved my old Palm Pre and HP Touchpad until they both eventually died violent deaths (technically one still runs after a 5-story fall onto marble, but it's not happy). The homebrew community rather quickly got an X server working complete with a couple of common desktop environments. Or rather I should say X servers plural, you could launch more than one and flick between them like any native app. With a bluetooth keyboard and mouse I could work much more comfortably than with the exact same hardware running Cyanogenmod. Being able to do Perl/Ruby development and run a real RDBMS is possible on Android, but it's not natural. When webOS came out GUI was also more pleasant than Android or iOS for a lot of things and definitely better at multitasking, but they couldn't compete in the market. Luckily some of the webOS UI folks ended up at Google and Apple (and some had come from there), so things like the Android notification system benefited.