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Configurable $6 65nm ARM9 chip runs Linux
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| STMicroelectronics (STM) has announced an ARM9-based SoC (system-on-chip)
| that comes with a Linux development board, and targets printers, scanners,
| and digital picture frames.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3787254777.html
'ARM9 Linux Support' offers comfortable user interface for simultaneous ARM
Linux kernel and application debugging
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| Programmierbare Logik & Systeme announces immediate availability of the 'ARM9
| Linux Support' add-on as an option for its Universal Debug Engine. The new
| add-on enables kernel and application debugging in parallel under one user
| interface. By simultaneous use of two debuggers, also errors in the boundary
| between operating system core and application can be easily detected.
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http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=83824&pm=1
Linux is used far more widely than Windows (see below).
Recent:
Why Ubuntu on ARM Could be a Rich Seam
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| ARM today announced that the total number of processors shipped by its
| Partners has exceeded ten billion.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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| [...]
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| A Nokia-sponsored project is porting Ubuntu Linux to the ARM architecture.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-ubuntu-on-arm-could-be-rich-seam.html
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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
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
Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3686249103.html
Ubuntu ported to ARM
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| A Nokia-sponsored project is porting Ubuntu Linux to the ARM architecture.
| The "Handheld Mojo" team has completed ARM builds of Feisty Fawn
| (dubbed "Frisky Firedrake") and Gutsy Gibbon ("Grumpy Griffin"), with Hardy
| Heron compilation starting soon.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2097004728.html
ARM unveils multi-core phone chips
http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2200698/arm-unveils-multi-core-phone
Analyst smashes the Intel Atom
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| Atom may prove to be a little faster, writes Kenton Williston, but ARM chips
| are cheaper, more power efficient, smaller -- and they're here now.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5492118276.html
Mozilla, Arm, others to build Linux UMPC platform
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| MontaVista, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Movial, and Marvell Technologies also
| on board to create an open source platform for new device category
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/03/Mozilla-Arm-build-Linux-UMPC_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/03/Mozilla-Arm-build-Linux-UMPC_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/32euhv
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
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
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