Design News: Embedded's New Star

[ Thanks to Jerry Fass for this link. ]

"Five years ago, it was little more than a technical curiosity.

"Embraced only by open-source enthusiasts and by a disgruntled anti-Windows brigade, Linux initially received a lukewarm welcome from pragmatists in the embedded world. Most of those engineers, concerned with issues of security and real-time operation, merely kept a watchful eye, waiting to see if there was a fire amid all the smoke..."

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