posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:44 AM
by
demiliani
Linux is growing on the Embedded world...
According to a news on LinuxDevices, the latest embedded market research data from Venture Development Corp. shows that Linux is now firmly in first place as the operating system of choice for smart gadgets and embedded systems.
Will be really true? Ok, the market research must be always taken carefully, at the moment I don't know if Linux is growing more than Windows CE/Mobile on the embedded devices world, but surely it has all the possibility to be the number 1 OS for the embedded.
The open source nature can help this result... the manufacturer can totally customize their OS, adapt it for your hardware and I think that the hardware requests (memory) could be reduced at the minimun (you can have a complete kernel in few Kb). This could be a key of success for the mobile world.
However... only the time will show us if the result above are really true. 