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On Sat, 7/26/2025 4:28 PM, Vir Campestris wrote:
> On 14/07/2025 00:58, Paul wrote:
>> The catch is, you have to rent a fiber optic internet service
>> to start with, the STB is provided as a rental, to convert IPTV
>> packets into an HDMI signal. It's not exactly stretching anyones
>> mental muscles to run Ubuntu on a computer, given the STB is
>> a computer. Look at a video of a take-apart of the STB and
>> you can see it's just a computer (about as technically complicated
>> as an RPi).
>
>
> The big smart TV manufacturers I know about are Roku (runs Linux under the
hood) Android (a Linux fork) and Apple. I'm told Apple's OS is based on Unix...
>
> Andy
>
A few OSes have as parents, Carnegie Mellon MACH.
A programmer who worked with me, she was a CM graduate and
used to annoy me with Mach anecdotes :-) She was still a good
person, so this was one of the prices I paid to have a dev to
use my hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29
"Mach's derivatives are the basis of the operating system kernel
in GNU Hurd and of Apple's XNU kernel used in
macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS."
Even without being a direct part of a project, concepts from Mach
were being used by people for other projects.
I even bought a copy of MachTen from Tenon systems, and presumably
that was a derivative of MACH from CM. And if we drove to the Tenon
offices, we'd likely find a graduate of CM working there. Tenon
also did an IP stack (back in the days when major companies did not
write their IP stack, but instead bought the stack from a smaller
company specializing in IP stacks). Today, every company would instead
have their own stack, due to certain developments in the field.
It's not necessary to buy a stack any more. Maybe an embedded OS
company would do that, but that should be about it.
Paul
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