The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) hosted a technical conference in Santa Clara, Calif. this week. LinuxDevices.com's roving reporter attended, and brought back slides and photos from an interesting demo session at the event (including the photo of “King Tux,” pictured here).

Overall, the CELF conference featured 40 speakers, and drew 104 pre-registered attendees and 14 on-site registrations, for a total of 158 attendees from the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Austria, and England.

The demo session consisted of vendor- or project-sponsored tables, which showcased various Linux-related software and hardware technologies of interest to consumer device developers, including both experimental technology and technology that has been deployed in successful products. Each demonstration was summarized by a poster, the contents of which appears below.

This year, LinuxDevices.com's selection for the CELF conference “Best of Show” award goes to the Panasonic P901iTV, a Linux-powered mobile phone that transforms into a terrestrial digital broadcast television when you twist the screen sideways.

Enjoy . . . !

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Triple-play STB with Linux, FV-R SoC

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MythTV on Nexperia

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Hybrid DTV with DirectFB, UHAPI

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Qtopia media player

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Linux gains streaming A/V API

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Embedded Linux terrestrial DMB TV

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Linux kernel CPU resource reservation

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Kprobes implementation for embedded system

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• Debugging Linux with dynamic kernel breakpoints

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ARM MPcore and power management

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OpenGL ES 1.1 under Linux with PowerVR MBX 3D acceleration

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ARM Trustzone with Linux

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Jazelle ARM Java acceleration

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Linux digital entertainment center

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XIP-cramfs

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Mobile phone based on CE Linux

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DirectFB implementation for real DTV SoC

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Improving start-up time using software suspend

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Boot speed comparison

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Mobile phone powered by Linux

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Photo Gallery

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Below are some images we brought back from this year's CELF conference demo session… Enjoy!

Attendees milling about

Another photo of attendees

…and another

Two views of Panasonic's P901iTV TV-enabled Linux mobile phone
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All Hail King Tux! (he's made of ice)

A Penguin and a Bird (Tim Bird, that is)

Tux poses with LinuxDevices.com's founder

Michael Opdenacker and Nicholas McGuire smile for the camera

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