[ 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…”