[sclug] Open Sky?

[Liam Flanagan]

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii-Linux

On 21 June 2012 10:31, Ms. C. Black <ycyrffgroupie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found out that my telly runs Linux through the Open Source licence. I was
> so happy. Another device in my house that runs Linux. Now my wii needs to
> run Linux.
>
> Christine.
>
> On 20 June 2012 19:46, Daniel Craigie <danielcraigie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Sitting down this evening, to watch the Hairy Bikers eat their way around
> > the country, I noticed that our SkyHD box has received a software update.
> >  Naturally (with the new rear RJ45 port in mind) I set about the setup
> menu
> > and came across the Software tab.  In short it's 91 pages of Open Source
> > licences, which can also be found at
> www.sky.com/opensourcesoftware/skyhd,
> > for all sorts of goodies including:
> >
> > XFree86
> > FreeBSD
> > libcurl
> > DHCP
> > Linux Kernel
> > IPTables
> > etc...
> >
> > Now I know that Linux has existed in set-top boxes for some time but does
> > anyone know how long Sky and/or Amstrad have been using it?
> >
> > I'm most intrigued to find anyone working on liberating the recorded
> > content from the internal disk so that I can stream it to my Raspberry
> Pi...
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > (Long time watcher, first time poster)
>
>
>
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