Lineo was a thin client and embedded systems company spun out of Caldera Thin Clients by 20 July 1999.
History
Caldera Thin Clients, Inc., had been created as a subsidiary of Caldera, Inc., on 2 September 1998. Caldera Thin Clients' original president and CEO was Roger Alan Gross, who resigned in January 1999. In April 1999, Caldera Thin Clients released the no longer needed sources to GEM and ViewMAX under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
In July 1999, Caldera Thin Clients decided on a major refocus on Linux and consequently changed its name to Lineo.
Lineo licensed a stripped down OpenLinux distribution from Caldera Systems and named it Embedix. They continued to maintain the former Caldera Thin Clients sales office in Taipei in 1999. In January 2000, Lineo reincorporated in Delaware.
Lineo's technologies fully owned were well ahead of competitors' products in the embedded system portion. These technologies included:
This combination of technologies allowed Caldera Thin Clients to offer a full Linux operating system with a graphical browser that could run off a