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hackable GPS?



On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:16:17PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> The March issue of "Linux Journal" has a full page ad from Garmin, one 
> of the leading GPS manufacturers, advertising a couple of jobs. One is 
> for a system administrator, and the other is for a Linux software 
> engineer, specifically with embedded application experience, and 
> mentions GTK+ and Qtopia.
> 
> Sounds like they're planning to develop a portable GPS receiver that 
> runs Linux.

I think I read somewhere that they are migrating (all?) their GPS receivers
to run (embedded) GNU/Linux...

Thanks,
Ward.

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