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Making More of a Contribution
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| The Linux world provides formalized ways of doing this, with repositories for
| posting code until clean, at which point it becomes a candidate for inclusion
| in a future version of Linux on kernel.org, the “official” Linux distribution
| vehicle. Anyone can contribute code, but not everyone does. In fact, at
| MontaVista’s recent VISION conference, CTO Jim Ready pointed out that of the
| top contributing companies to Linux, only one from the embedded world
| (surprise – MontaVista) was in the top 30, at number 9, with 1.2% of the
| contributions. Everyone else was enterprise- or PC-oriented. It didn’t seem
| like Jim was using this fact to pat MontaVista’s back, but rather to suggest
| that the embedded community isn’t doing its part in improving Linux. And this
| can come at a real cost, since embedded systems have significant requirements
| that won’t necessarily be considered without staunch embedded advocates.
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http://www.embeddedtechjournal.com/articles_2008/20081104_linux.htm
Recent:
An interview with Jim Ready
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| We can all be quite proud of the enormous progress Linux has made in
| transforming the embedded OS marketplace from one which was highly fragmented
| and largely devoid of standards, to an environment based upon a highly
| functional OS which is a truly open standard: Linux.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/285099/
Linux prominent in chip show awards
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| Timesys won Best in Show at the 2008 Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) for its
| Online Linux Factory. San Juan Software won the other Best in Show for its
| ZigBee controller platform, and Nuvation won an award for an
| air-hockey-playing "Flexis AC Face-off" robot (pictured).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6259486465.html
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
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
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