The Secret Life of Embedded Linux
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| Manufacturers have to weigh sometimes competing factors when selecting
| Linux over Windows or a proprietary OS in consumer products. Often,
| the flexibility of Linux balances out those differences, sometimes
| it does not.
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| Clearly, though, Linux's freedom and flexibility are driving the
| trend to putting Linux inside consumer products that are not
| encumbered with hardware restrictions. Manufacturers are not
| dependent on a single vendor with Linux.
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| "Linux is a moving trend. More and more manufacturers are using
| it," concluded MontaVista's Ready.
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| Yaghmour concurs. "Every engineer adapts it and expands the user
| base," he said. "Anybody who wants to enter the market is using
| Linux due to its low cost. It is hard to justify changing for a
| proprietary OS."
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Fault-tolerant Linux - expanding the choice of operating system for
availability
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| Linux is growing in popularity compared with other operating systems
| and using Linux offers a route for organisations to achieve high
| availability at a potentially lower cost. As a free operating system,
| the level of cost would be much lower than other approaches and this
| is contributing to its growing popularity from a business
| continuity perspective.
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