Re: [GTALUG] Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"

2021-06-20 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
Stewart,

   It is too bad I am unemployed at the moment.  When you pull down SolidWorks' 
Help menu and select About SolidWorks, you get a list of all the copyrights 
from their subcontractors.  Somebody starts a company.  They write some 
graphics processing code.  They license it to SolidWorks.  They set up a post 
office box for SolidWorks to send cheques to.  There arew a whole lot of them. 

On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:25:18 -0400
"Stewart C. Russell via talk"  wrote:

> Popular hardware hacker Foone Turing has found that the Chevy Silverado
> they're renting runs a dubious version of Linux in the entertainment
> console, yet it seems to have some control over some in-car systems and
> talks via the car's wifi (of course). Ongoing slightly sweary thread
> starts here:
> 
> foone (@Foone) : I'm renting a recent Chevy Silverado pickup truck
> and it has a big screen for connecting navigation and controlling
> bluetooth music and such, and it's apparently linux based. You know
> how it I know? It has the license files for EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE
> included, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
> 10:21 PM · Jun 18, 2021
> — https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1406074736803676163
> 
> Definite 'Code Red' from Cabin Pressure material for me ...
> 
> cheers,
> 
>  Stewart
> 
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Re: [GTALUG] Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"

2021-06-19 Thread Alvin Starr via talk

On 6/19/21 3:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:

Popular hardware hacker Foone Turing has found that the Chevy Silverado
they're renting runs a dubious version of Linux in the entertainment
console, yet it seems to have some control over some in-car systems and
talks via the car's wifi (of course). Ongoing slightly sweary thread
starts here:

 foone (@Foone) : I'm renting a recent Chevy Silverado pickup truck
 and it has a big screen for connecting navigation and controlling
 bluetooth music and such, and it's apparently linux based. You know
 how it I know? It has the license files for EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE
 included, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
 10:21 PM · Jun 18, 2021
 — https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1406074736803676163

Definite 'Code Red' from Cabin Pressure material for me ...

This is not all that surprising since there are groups working on linux 
for automobiles.


like  https://www.automotivelinux.org.

There are also some android for cars projects floating around.


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[GTALUG] Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"

2021-06-19 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
Popular hardware hacker Foone Turing has found that the Chevy Silverado
they're renting runs a dubious version of Linux in the entertainment
console, yet it seems to have some control over some in-car systems and
talks via the car's wifi (of course). Ongoing slightly sweary thread
starts here:

foone (@Foone) : I'm renting a recent Chevy Silverado pickup truck
and it has a big screen for connecting navigation and controlling
bluetooth music and such, and it's apparently linux based. You know
how it I know? It has the license files for EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE
included, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
10:21 PM · Jun 18, 2021
— https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1406074736803676163

Definite 'Code Red' from Cabin Pressure material for me ...

cheers,

 Stewart


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