Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"
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
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. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||
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" <talk@gtalug.org> 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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