Thursday, July 24, 2008

Embedded Linux: With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Embedded Linux: With friends like these, who needs enemies?

If embedded Linux champions are saying that embedded Linux is terrible, why would anyone want to risk their products or their company on it?

Embedded Linux is the most hyped embedded operating system ever. It is promoted as inexpensive, high quality, high productivity, reliable, widely available, and well supported. It is none of these things, as two of its greatest proponents have recently pointed out. Wind River Systems and MontaVista Software, companies that each describe themselves as "the leader" in embedded Linux, have both initiated marketing campaigns touting the horrors of using embedded Linux.


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