itpro.co.uk — Embedded Linux is on the rise, and may be found anywhere from the vehicle management system in your car to the smartphone in your shirt pocket. Montavista Linux, for instance, powers not only smartphones from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic, but Sony TV and media devices, Linksys wireless routers and Yamaha musical instrument systems.
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dchomperJul 30, 2007
The last time I checked my Tvix HD-M5100 networked media player it runs embedded Linux for the Sigma designs chip. The same holds for many other network media devices including the Mvix series, etc.My Linksys WRT-54GL router also runs linux, the Tomato firmware. <a class="user" href="http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato">http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato</a>
obkenobiJul 30, 2007
Tomato firmware is very nice.
jqp123Jul 30, 2007
"Microcontrollers can easily run embedded Linux." It takes a fairly substantial microcontroller to run Linux. Even if your microcontroller can run Linux, you'd need a good reason to invoke all the overhead associated with a full blown, general purpose OS. In a strictly controlled environment such as vehicle management, about all the designers really *need* in the way of an OS is a decent task scheduler. It's possible to take Linux and cut it down to this size but what's left is just a little piece of what most people call Linux. In many cases, it makes more sense to just use something that was built from the ground up specifically for this type application. There are several Open Source options.
z33tecJul 30, 2007
Instead of Hello World it would be Hello.. well, you know...
init100Jul 30, 2007
"When you are stuck 15 miles above the Earth"15 miles is only about 24 km. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is between 200 and 2000 km above the Earth.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit</a>
mbthompsonJul 30, 2007
You're, not your! Damnit people!