New book: “Hacking the TiVo”
Sep 4, 2003 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — views
A new book by William von Hagen delves into one of embedded Linux's biggest commercial successes: the TiVo personal video recorder.
We asked von Hagen to write a short article describing the book and his goals in writing it, and he has supplied an essay entitled “Hacking the TiVo: Commercial (embedded) Linux is already here — check your living room.”
In this essay, von Hagen describes the communities of enterprising TiVo users that have sprung up, bringing new functionality to the device through hardware upgrades and leveraging the powerful flexibility of the device's underlying Linux OS.
Obviously a great fan of the TiVo, von Hagen likens his book to the guidebooks for customizing classic cars, repairing televisions, or other how-to guides to hardware modification. Despite the word “hacking” in the title, von Hagen assures readers that nothing illegal is described or recommended in the book.
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