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Lineo was a thin client and embedded systems company spun out of Caldera Thin Clients, on 20 July 1999.
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 Gross, who resigned in January 1999.
Lineo’s president and CEO, when it reformed under the new name, became Bryan Sparks, who also had been one of the original founders of Caldera, Inc., in 1994. At the time of its creation, Lineo had 14 employees.
Lineo’s main product was Embedix, a lightweight Linux distribution for embedded systems, licensed from Caldera Systems, Inc., another subsidiary of Caldera, Inc.
Another product was DR-DOS, an MS-DOS–compatible operating system, previously developed by Caldera UK, Ltd. between 1996 and 1999 and originally acquired from Novell by Caldera, Inc., on 23 July 1996.
Through its acquisitions Lineo also had a range of products in many different product categories.
Through a series of…