Linux in your living room, Jul 21, 2003

Linux software has made good headway in undermining Microsoft in corporate networks. Now a Silicon Valley company believes Linux will do the same in the consumer electronics market. But here the incumbent isn't Microsoft. It's Alameda-based Wind River Systems, which has established itself over the past two decades as the leader in embedded software.

Mitch Kapor, creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and co-founder of the Lotus Development Corporation, is leading a project called Chandler to create an open-source personal information manager package.

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