[ILUG] How much is Linux used?

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Brian Foster wrote:

>  | Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 01:04:01 +0100 (IST)
>  | From: Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie>

>  | And it not making inroads into embedded RTOS market.
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> NO.  and about Linux not making inroads into the small-memory
> and/or hard-realtime embedded market.  those are important
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I missed small-memory, but I think I covered the RTOS bit.. Is small 
memory that important anymore even? The Netgear WG602v2 on my desk 
here was dirt cheap and has (iirc) 8MB of RAM and runs uclinux and 
supports a couple of things.

RAM is fairly cheap, even in quantities needed to run Linux or 
ucLinux. The RT part is harder to do with a 'big' OS.

Does it even matter what OS exactly it is as long as it's Free and 
suitable for the task?

regards,
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