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Living in a Linux Embedded World

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 5, 2001 @07:24AM from the how-little-is-little dept.

krow writes: "Embedded.com is running an article where the author is making some assumptions of Linux's use in the embedded markets based on the opinion of one consultant and the fact that Lineo had to lay off some people this year. It's still interesting reading though for some insight into a different world for Linux and there is a nice reference in the comments to the interview of Victor Yodaiken of RTLinux fame by by Kevin Fu on the ACM site."

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Re:Long Cycles by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-05 08:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Absolutly wrong, with embedded linux you can use an NFS server to atually hold your application software, the software is updated with a copy/paste of a file, inside the running a system! You don't even have to reboot!

Same for hardware drivers, if you code them as module you can cp/paste the module on the NFS, rmmod the module, insmod the updated one, again even without reboot. Now tell me a RTOS thats competing here in shortence of development cycles.