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AJLynn · January 26th, 2006

I'm guessing this is embedded Linux for integrated microcomputers? That's useful - often a company making a microcontroller-based device has to license a real-time OS (RTOS) which is expensive and proprietary. Linux is free, open source and a lot of people are good at programming for it.

January 26th, 2006	#2 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,546 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: PicoTux I'm guessing this is embedded Linux for integrated microcomputers? That's useful - often a company making a microcontroller-based device has to license a real-time OS (RTOS) which is expensive and proprietary. Linux is free, open source and a lot of people are good at programming for it.