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Electronics Weekly: Lineo ships Embedix Linux 1.0

[ Thanks to Mark
Sweeting
for this link. ]

“Lineo has released the first version of its Linux operating
system called Embedix, which is targeted at embedded systems and
will compete with Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system in a wide
range of high volume consumer electronics devices.”

Embedded versions of Linux could prove key in consumer
electronics devices whose low price means that manufacturers of
such devices need a very low cost operating system and often cannot
justify Microsoft’s relatively high licensing costs for Windows
CE.

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