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10 Coolest Devices Running Linux
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| As you all probably know Linux is not limited to just desktops. It’s far
| reaching, actually. Not that you’d have a Terminal app on it or anything, but
| you could. Some of you may have a mobile phone running Linux and you probably
| don’t even know it. The most popular phone in the world runs Unix. That’s
| right. The iPhone runs on Unix. Are there any other cool devices out there
| running on Linux or Unix?
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http://168hours.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/10-coolest-devices-running-linux/
Recent:
Why Linux won the embedded market?
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| One story not told often enough involves Linux’ growing domination of the
| embedded market.
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| In this space Linux usually stacks up against older Real Time Operating
| Systems (RTOS). The decision by Wind River, the largest RTOS vendor, to
| migrate toward Linux was a turning point.
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| There has been no turning back. But this is not an open source story. In
| fact, the embedded Linux business looks a lot like the rest of the embedded
| market.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2501
Linux is truly everywhere
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| I spent a long time smiling about the Linux bootup screen that I had just
| seen. To begin with, it reminded me that Linux, and other open-source
| products, are now everywhere. Linux is no longer for the uber-geeks. It's not
| just for system administrators and programmers, either. Linux is now at the
| core of mainstream appliances, there even when you don't think that a
| computer or operating system might be involved.
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| [...]
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| Finally, Moore's Law and the general trend toward cheaper and faster hardware
| means that Linux now fits into even more places than it did before. We
| normally think of Linux as an operating system for servers, or even for
| desktop computers. But we can expect Linux to be at the heart of a growing
| number of appliances, from video-on-demand devices to digital video recorders
| (e.g., TiVo), to cellphones (e.g., Android and OpenMoko). The Linux-powered
| refrigerator, with a built-in bar-code scanner that can tell you how long ago
| you bought milk, isn't far behind.
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http://ostatic.com/158401-blog/linux-is-truly-everywhere
Related:
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| Around 98% of the world's CPUs manufactured are used in embedded systems.
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http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/132
Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3686249103.html
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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