ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

[Posted December 6, 2012 by ris]

From:		"kocher-AT-rosalab.ru" <kocher-AT-rosalab.ru>
To:		"pr-AT-lwn.net" <pr-AT-lwn.net>
Subject:		ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux
Date:		Thu, 6 Dec 2012 12:39:20 +0000
Message-ID:		<578560.354744212-sendEmail@ocs-ng>

ROSA representatives have joined the Steering Committee of the Automotive Grade Linux project aimed
to develop a prototype of a software platform for next generation in-vehicle infotainment (IVI)
systems. AGL joins the major automotive manufacturers, leaders of the customer electronics market
and large-scale IT companies. The Automotive Grade Linux project was launched by the The Linux
Foundation.

AGL official site: http://automotive.linuxfoundation.org/

Besides traditional criteria (engine power, speed, economy, safety), customers increasingly
evaluate cars with respect to their entertainment and information features. People spoilt by the
progress of communication devices expect to get habitual features and functionality in their new
automobiles.

“ROSA has achieved good results in developing software for desktop computers and mobile devices.
We have a vision how to make our products useful and attractive for automobiles» - says Vladimir
Kryukov, ROSA Product Marketing Director.

In particular, at the exhibition in London in autumn 2012, ROSA demonstrated a prototype of ROSA
Sputnik in-vehicle infotainment system. The working prototype allows to play multimedia files, see
the places of interest by means of excursion modules and construct routes taking into account a
large set of criteria. All information can be displayed either at the screen of on-board computer
or at the car's windshield. For this purpose, specialized user interface modules were developed
that use the Augmented Reality concepts.

Technical details about ROSA Sputnik is here: https://www.2safe.com/viewer/1033133033028

ROSA is also carrying research in the field of semantic interfaces, optimization of information
structure and increase of its accessibility. A talk concerning this topic was given at the
Automotive Linux Summit.
http://automotivelinuxsummit2012.sched.org/event/9c2293ca....

For more information please contact Konstantin Kochereshkin, ROSA PR-manager. Tel.: +7(495)
229-8812; e-mail: kocher@rosalab.ru.

About ROSA
ROSA Company (ROSA СJSC) is a software development center that provides a wide range of solutions
based on free and open source software (FOSS). The company's products include desktop, server,
mobile and embedded operating systems and solutions with friendly user interface, infrastructure
services and user applications.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 2:28 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (12 responses)

I really want there to be a Headlight Committee which researches possible new routes for the Steering Committee to take. Please tell me this is so.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 3:03 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (6 responses)

Don't make light of serious stuff. This thread will lose its direction and veer off-course. Worst-case, the computer will crash---your mileage may vary.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 6:17 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (5 responses)

These winding treads go interesting places sometimes though. Granted, you might have to find the narrow lane where people aren't just raging aimlessly in order to ford the noisy parts efficiently, but they're not a complete third wheel on the site. I've certainly gotten useful directions from them at least.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 9:09 UTC (Fri) by Im26 (subscriber, #48749) [Link] (3 responses)

If Microsoft made cars...

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 17:06 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

> 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

This is, in fact, the behavior of many older MBTA busses in Boston. Just sayin'.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 18:41 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Ha.

I actually had this very problem with a Ford rental car. It had "Microsoft Sync" for its infotaiment system and it suddenly started to output very loud white noise over the audio system while I was on a freeway. And it wasn't responding to volume controls.

However, simply stopping the car and turning it off didn't help. I had to go online, find the location of fusebox, and pull the fuse to hard-reset the infotaiment system.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 18:58 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> However, simply stopping the car and turning it off didn't help.

Did you try turning the car off while it wasn't stopped? The GP's instructions stated that you had to "pull over to the side of the road". There's no mention that the car should be at rest. I'm sure it's a common oversight.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 11:13 UTC (Fri) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

I liked "Xen and the art of hypervisor maintenance" - it still challenges me to program using the abstraction less travelled.

...and a Handbreak Committee.

Posted Dec 7, 2012 19:12 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] (4 responses)

Given that "Konstantin Kochereshkin, ROSA PR-manager" is a poor half-literate guy who was fired a few years ago from another Moscow based corporation they sort of competed with...

Hope that Volodya Rubanov will fix that mess eventually (or the legacy guys like this one will draw conclusions from the "go on by any lies" part of ROSA history), time will tell. In the mean time, I wouldn't trust them any more than e.g. MSFT: the business owner hasn't changed, after all.

...and a Handbreak Committee.

Posted Dec 11, 2012 9:05 UTC (Tue) by vrubanov (guest, #88253) [Link] (3 responses)

Michael (gvy), probably you hope to irritate people by your trolling posts. But everybody knows that you're biased and your posts just reflect your frustration from the past where ROSA beat you. Don't look stupid, you're a good engineer but such your behaviour disgraces all the professional field.

I recommend just to stop doing this and rather spend the time to do some technical work for the benefit of the open source world. Believe it or not, we (ROSA) do such technical work and will do without regard to your posts.

...and a Handbreak Committee.

Posted Dec 23, 2012 14:03 UTC (Sun) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] (2 responses)

Volodya, I'm not aiming to irritate anyone; but those reading your PR should also know the destruction to the free software in Russia and France that PingWinSoft/Rosa have brought during the last few years -- and it's *massive*, way worse than what even Microsoft has achieved to date AFAIK (to those who missed the story: these lamers raided down and then completely devastated the Russian school project rendering tens of thousands of teachers being literally tortured through deeply useless "courses" and "installations" and "reports" without any real on-site help and lasting result -- I don't think that even Leonid Reiman the thief was intending to take it *that* bad; but in Mandriva case he definitely should have known better what he's going to mess with).

It's only slowly cured by real job done but *not* by announcements which are going to continue being accompanied by reminders like this -- even if you choose to misclassify disclosure as trolling.

I know you personally are not evil and hope it will be so in the future. But you chose to go with the wrong people in the first place, I doubt you will be able to fix this bug.

Good luck, and may the next year see more free software and less spam originating from the company you came to lead.

late fix

Posted Dec 23, 2012 14:06 UTC (Sun) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

s/achieved/& here/

...and a Handbreak Committee.

Posted Mar 8, 2013 8:25 UTC (Fri) by vrubanov (guest, #88253) [Link]

Michael, I'm really in doubt. I believed you was a smart attacker who tried pursuing your own business goals as a ROSA competitor (well, using black PR methods might be questionable but it's your choice). But now I start thinking that you're a bit crazy, living in your fake illusions (which you personally might truly believe in but which have no relation to the reality). Maybe there is a mix of these two reasons (probably unconscious for you).

Anyway, your behaviour harms open source. Just see what we [ROSA] do in the technical field. I don't claim everything is ideal but don't you see how much we contribute to the FOSS world? Isn't it what matters instead of your insinuations?