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[News] Linux is Everywhere and on Everything

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Linux on everything!

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| My current work is mostly related to embedded devices 
| with comms, and as such, I read quite a bit about linux 
| on embedded systems on a daily basis. Mobile phone 
| manufacturers are rushing to linux (android), and 
| recently I became proud owner of one such thing. Many 
| gadgets, like gps devices, pda, mobile phones, netbooks, 
| etc. also run on linux these days.
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http://www.ugarro.com/blog/blog4.php/2009/10/04/linux-on-everything


Recent:

Embedded Linux: Out of sight, out of mind

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| Embedded Linux devices fall into two categories:
|
|    1. Where the Linux OS is anonymous simply because it has been used by
|    engineers as part of the tool set. For example branding of a flight data
|    recorder would be weak. The buyers in a specialist market would buy based
|    on specificaton, price and their own professional evaluation.
|    2. Where the Linux OS can do its job but not intrude on the heavy branding
|    of its host device. For example TomTom, Motorola, Palm and Sony would have
|    good market reasons not to compete with Microsoft branding. The don't
|    wan't or need any interference from 'Microsoft Inside' stickers.
|
| So what follows this section it is just a list really, thinly disguised by a
| theme! Apologies, you may know it all already, but hopefully some sections
| will be as news to you as they were to me. Even with some kind of theme there
| were still eleven categories. Skip the bits you are familiar with.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=2284


Related:

You're A Linux User/Supporter: You Just Don't Know It Yet  

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| I'D like to start by asking you a series of seemingly unrelated questions.  
| Have you watched Shrek or Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone?  Have you
| flown on Continental, Virgin America or Singapore Airlines?  Do you drive a
| BMW, Fiat or Renault car?  Are you serving in the United States Army?  Have
| you ever bought anything online using Paypal?  Have you ever stayed in a
| Sheraton hotel?  Or travelled by train in Canada?    
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=409


The hidden world of Linux

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| There are many great FOSS projects that utilise old PC hardware and give it a
| new lease of life. The best is desktop computing with various Linux
| distribution flavours like Mint, PCLinux, Ubuntu and countless others. In
| fact it is my considered belief that the best hardware to run Linux on is
| infact (almost) any machine that is at least 12 months old. It is possible,
| of course, to select components based on the degree (and maturity) of the
| specific support under Linux but this has two major drawbacks.      
|
| [...]
|
| Not only do such projects look to modify embedded Linux devices, but some
| great projects have sprung up to utilise old PCs every household seems to  
| accumulate in order to fulfil a number of key uses. For example,
| comprehensive firewall distributions like IPCop or Smoothwall or NAS
| distributions like FreeNAS (although this is based on BSD.) These are not
| dirty hacked operating systems either but very mature, streamlined, low
| memory footprint distributions which run headlessly. Being totally
| administered through a web browser makes these distributions feel extremely
| professional and polished (even if the archaic hardware they are running on
| doesnât) this being coupled by the extraordinary amount of options present
| really makes these projects an extraordinary example of the flexibility of
| Linux/BSD.          
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http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/the-hidden-world-of-linux/


Linux everywhere

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| Take yesterday as a case in point.  I checked the order status of my Elonex
| One, and sent an email to see if my order for the One can be upgraded to the
| One+ (bluetooth, and bigger internal memory).  I then caught the train to the
| Queen Elizabeth hospital, watching the in-train tv which is powered by some
| Linux flavour (given the error message I saw a few weeks back).  Visiting my
| friend Simon at the QE, heâs spotted that the tv/phone/internet screens that
| each patient has are powered by Linux.  This is of course when heâs not
| tapping away on his Asus EEE, and hopefully writing the next Da Vinci Code
| (only better).        
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http://andyhollyhead.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/linux-everywhere/


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.    
|
| [...]
|
| 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


What CANâT Linux do?

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| 1. The story mentioned above. A man installs Linux on sixteen Playstation 3s
| (with zero hardware modifications), clusters them together, and creates a
| system to simulate black holes.  
| 2. Installing Linux on a Mac. I was just reading the most recent Wired
| magazine that has a good story on how Apple has created a very closed system
| where only Apple software plays on Apple hardware. Hello Yellow Dog Linux! I
| have run Linux on an iBook - it was sweet.  
| 3. Routers. We all know that Linux works well on routers. OpenWRT installs
| well on many Linksys routers.
|
| [...]
|
| 11. Airplane black boxes. Montavista uses a Carrier Grade Linux to power
| in-flight recorders.
| 12. Brain surgery. Yep. This Linux-powered robot helps in brain surgery.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=186
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