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Desi(Indian) solutions fuel device developers' love of Linux

hindu.com — Bangalore: Indian engineers are helping to fuel the increasing world-wide popularity of the `free-and-open' Linux platform for a host of handy consumer devices from mobile phones to music players to portable life-saving devices — and they are doing this using internationally used chip platforms.

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  • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One day, all embedded device will use one form or another of an Open Source system (probably Linux). Sadly, nobody will even notice...

    Embedded Linux: the 'Invisible Ubiquity' in Gadgets

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    | While the use of embedded Linux is growing at a 20 percent clip, it
    | is generally an invisible presence in electronic devices. "Your
    | average consumer who walks into Best Buy doesn't really care about
    | the operating system," said Malachy Moynihan, vice president and
    | general manager of Linksys' home networking business unit. "They look
    | at a router like you look at your toaster."
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    http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/53409.html
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