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Editorial: Piracy under attack
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| Vendors in India have already started pre-installing Linux on PCs to reduce
| costs. On the server front, Linux is already a potent force. Major firms and
| institutions like the LIC of India, IDBI, IndiaBulls and HDFC use Linux on
| their servers, even for "mission-critical" applications.
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| In most cases, the implementation of Linux in Indian enterprises is by Red
| Hat. Novell is the other prominent Linux vendor. However, if one has an
| in-house IT maintenance department, it is possible to choose from hundreds of
| other Linux distributions — Mandriva, Debian, Suse,PCLinuxOS, Knoppix and
| Ubuntu, to name a few — for desktops and enterprises (especially small and
| medium companies). Linux today has gained the support of corporations such as
| IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Novell. In India, besides
| major companies, state governments in Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and
| Maharashtra have started using Linux in a bid to promote "open-source"
| environments, which also explains, to some extent, the drop in software
| piracy rates. Moreover, in an age when goliaths like Google are paving the
| way to success with free software, proprietary software vendors should do
| some soul-searching too. It's also time that SMEs took the cue. They should
| start using ‘open source' and free software, and stop paying the heavy price
| associated with the term software "pirates".
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http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu5&subLeft=1&autono=323272&tab=r
BEST Bus Service, Mumbai revamps service with Linux
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| To make the journey safer and convenient, BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply
| and Transport) uses their Go Mumbai prepaid card in the best possible way
| which is supported by Linux. To add in further features to this system, the
| buses will deploy a device on the entry (back door) and exit (front door) of
| the bus.
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http://www.techshout.com/general/2008/17/best-bus-service-mumbai-revamps-service-with-linux/
Recent:
Freeing software for users
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| GNU Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and free and open source software such
| as OpenOffice have started posing a serious challenge to proprietary giants.
| The ideology of free software can be explored more easily by encountering the
| people using and popularising it.
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| Yet another organisation that is at the forefront of using cyber space for
| local content is the non-profit organisation Society for Promotion of
| Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE). For four years, SPACE has been
| promoting free software and encouraging local participation in using new
| technology. SPACE works to popularise Linux and is the workhorse behind many
| Goverment projects such as IT @ School.
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| [...]
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| Adds Dineshan M, a teacher associated with IT @ School: “A teacher should
| impart value to his students. Discouraging the use of pirated copies of
| expensive software and promoting GNU/Linux comes naturally to me as a
| teacher.”
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http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/04/19/stories/2008041950920400.htm
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:
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| * 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
Embedded Linux research report ships
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| EDC noted that some 40 percent of the survey's 500 respondents were targeting
| embedded Linux.
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| [...]
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| Also in the earlier reports, Andrews observed that the need for RTOS source
| code was "one of the reasons that proprietary RTOSes created in-house for a
| specific system have long been popular, and now it's a primary motivating
| factor in the adoption of Embedded Linux."
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| The now completed survey results are said to include "expert analysis" from
| Ann Thryft, a 20-year industry veteran. The report includes chapters on
| platforms, processors, tools, languages, security, target devices, mobile
| development, and of course, Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7613839836.html
Linux rides pillion on Mumbai city buses
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| This triangle of devices in the bus uses ARM9 processors and runs embedded
| Linux using kernel 2.6. Having these Linux-embedded devices, says Satish
| Goriani, consultant to the technology provider Kaizen, drastically reduces
| the transaction time, and the inbuilt services in Linux, such as SSH, make it
| easy to manage them remotely. Forty buses are equipped in this way. The other
| 3,500 in the system use a more low-tech solution: a handheld device that the
| bus conductor uses to debit the smart card.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/132871
Embedded Linux has more friends than you may know
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| Sony recently announced that one of its BRAVIA LCD TV factories will double
| production from 2 million TV sets per year to 4 million to meet growing
| demand in Europe. Sony has sold more than 20 million of these TVs, and
| they're all built with embedded Linux.
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| So what? Embedded Linux is no surprise. Sony and tens of thousands of other
| companies, from huge to tiny, use embedded Linux every day to deliver
| successful products in every market. That is not news.
|
| Ten years ago, though, embedded Linux was a surprising-even shocking-idea to
| most people. Back in 1998, fresh from victory in the RTOS industry, I
| introduced the idea of building a software company to make Linux a suitable
| OS for developing smart devices. When I told people the idea, they gawked as
| if I was a few lines short of compilable code.
|
| "You want to build a company on software that's available for free?" I was
| asked. "Based on the gigantically bloated Unix OS? And with some oddball GPL
| license? How fast do you expect people to kick you out of their office?"
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| Every market survey showed that the demand for embedded Linux was zero. When
| we released our first product, industry experts agreed that nobody needed it.
| Embedded Linux won't work because it is "too big, too slow, and not
| real-time," said the head of one RTOS company. The president of another
| derided embedded Linux as "a royal pain in the ass," so no developer would
| ever use it.
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| I took heart from a quote attributed to Mohandas Gandhi: "First they ignore
| you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
|
| [...]
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| Analyst firms don't agree on how many device engineers use embedded Linux,
| but they all say the number is substantial: 21% of developers use embedded
| Linux, according to last year's Embedded Systems Design survey; 36.7%,
| according to current research by Embedded Market Forecasters. This April, VDC
| reported that Linux is now the leading embedded OS. It shouldn't be
| surprising. After all, commercial Linux vendors succeed because they
| understand what design engineers are looking for.
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http://www.embedded.com/columns/guest/207602734
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