The distribution featured a basic but functional graphical interface, drivers for the majority of the components of the different devices, and many preinstalled services (such as an FTP, SSH and Telnet server) and applications (utilities, games, audio players…). Some years ago, in 2006, a mainly German developer team released a lightweight Linux distribution for those devices, called OpenTom. About OpenTomĪmong the different GPS brands that were popular in the past, TomTom devices are very interesting to explore, as their software is based on Linux and the brand made most of it open-source. However, lots of people still have one of those devices lying around, that they can give a second life to (or at least to tinker with). Nowadays, the use of dedicated GPS devices has been relegated to a second place, as almost everyone has a smartphone with a built-in GPS to calculate the needed routes. However, an automatically translated version can be found here. This article was originally written in English.
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