"For those you who have never been to an embedded systems conference let fill you on a few details. This conference deals with the fundamental components for making consumer and industrial electronic devices. You don't see a lot of polished, marketable consumer products like cellphones or game consoles--the exciting things you see are the next generation silicon, processor cores, software tools, development tools and serial interconnect products.
"With that said all the big hardware players had a GNU/Linux offering, some partnering with the likes of MontaVista, Red Hat, LynuxWorks and TimeSys. Everybody has development boards and board support packages (BSP) for GNU/Linux..."
