LinuxDevices.com: uClinux: World's Most Popular Embedded Linux Distro?
Sep 25, 2002, 22:00 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by John Drabik)
"Despite claims to the contrary, uClinux may well represent the
world's first, most mature, and most commercially successful
embedded Linux distribution. While other embedded distributions
rely on upscale processors to get reasonable performance, uClinux
uses solid code, a firm guiding hand, and actual product experience
with deeply embedded systems. The results are smaller code, better
performance, and lower cost--all of which is applicable to both
MMU-less and MMU-enabled systems.
"uClinux (pronounced 'you see linux') grew out of the work of
Jeff Dionne, Kenneth Albanowski, and later, Michael Durrant, at a
company known as Rt-Control, in Toronto, Canada. The first release
of uClinux was for then-popular Motorola 68000 processors; but an
early focus on cross-platform development along with an
easily-understood model quickly led to ports for other chips. Most
were highly integrated microcontrollers, such as ColdFire, ETRAX,
ARM7, ARM9, and i960. The basic techniques were sound, the results
excellent, and the code was useful on MMU-enabled processors
too--even x86, sometimes with the MMU turned off for better
performance..."
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