Pick and place: Linux grabs the embedded market: built with contributions from hundreds of software experts, the Linux operating system has captured the attention of embedded-system developers worldwide. (Cover Story).

From: EDN | Date: October 31, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

LINUX IS NO LONGER just the open-source operating system that you must download, modify, troubleshoot, and maintain yourself for your embedded application. In fact, commercial Linux support is appearing throughout the embedded industry. Vendors of bus modules and single-board computers now offer Linux preconfigured with their products. Silicon vendors are releasing new microprocessors with Linux configurations available. And software vendors maintain and support more than a dozen off-the-shelf Linux distributions as commercial products for embedded applications.

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