Open source big names helping attract new users
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| Participation by big open source vendors is helping attract new interest in
| Linux user groups in Asia.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62040788,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
A lot of embedded Linux comes from Asia.
Kit Enables MicroBlaze-Based Linux Design
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| Based on the PetaLogix Petalinux and LynuxWork’s BlueCAT Linux distribution
| and tool chains, the MicroBlaze Processor SpeedWay Design Workshop from Avnet
| includes the Linux for MicroBlaze Processor DVD, the Xilinx Embedded
| Development Kit (Spartan-3A DSP MicroBlaze Processor Edition), and attendance
| at an Avnet Linux for MicroBlaze Processor Workshop
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http://www.ecnmag.com/product-Kit-Enables-MicroBlaze-Based-Linux-Design.aspx?menuid=330
Recent:
Complete Linux design solution for MicroBlaze FPGA-based soft-core processor
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| The folks at Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, the electronics
| distribution components group for the Americas region of Avnet, Inc., have
| released a new Xilinx MicroBlaze Processor Linux DVD and a MicroBlaze
| Processor Linux Starter Kit. They've also announced the launch of their Linux
| for MicroBlaze Processor SpeedWay Design Workshop.
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http://www.my-esm.com/distributionnews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207402105
Linux still top embedded OS
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| In a new whitepaper on Linux in the embedded market, VDC researchers cite the
| following reasons for Linux's popularity:
|
| * Licensing cost advantages
| * Flexibility of source code access
| * General familiarity
| * Maturing ecosystem of applications and tools
| * Growing developer experience with Linux as an embedded OS
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4920597981.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Microsoft Worried Over Linux Dominance In Embedded Space
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| Renames its family of products to target the embedded market.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26010/news.htm
Who's afraid of embedded Linux? Microsoft
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| ...Microsoft is fighting a losing battle here. It's like gravity.
| Eventually you just stop fighting and learn to accept it. Even Microsoft.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9919632-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
Linux to grow 278% in embedded/mobile/real-time apps
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| Linux use in "next" embedded, mobile, and real-time projects will grow 278
| percent over that in "previous" projects, suggests a recent survey by Venture
| Development Corp. (VDC).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7115758310.html
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