Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:39:43PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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> On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
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>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Lior Kaplan wrote:
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>>> http://www.doom.co.il/blog/?p=333
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>> Any chance of a quick executive summary for us Hebrew impaired?
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> I had to use google translate, so it may not be completely accurate.
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> He bought a digital TV decoder box. It has a USB port so you can put a  
> disk drive or memory stick on it and record programs.
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> He thinks it runs on Linux. To comply with the GPL, the source code  
> needs to be availble. It is as far as he knows not available.

Regardless of what he thinks and what he bought, a certain company makes
a firmware upgrade available for download. That firmware upgrade is
technically a bootable Linux system (kernel, root filesystem, some extra
tools needed to boot it).

If you make a binary generated from a GPL source code available for
download, you should provide the sources (or offer to provide them).

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