What Is The Most Popular OS in the World?

Roland Piquepaille writes "If your answer is Windows, you're plain wrong. It's ITRON, a Japanese real-time OS kernel that can be customized for any small-scale embedded systems. According to LinuxInsider.com, it is used by more than 3 billion microprocessors found in mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players and many other electronic devices including even satellites. The article looks at the competition in this market, notably RTLinux, the real-time version of Linux, and T-Linux, an environment for running middleware. This last effort could lead to the eTRON chip, an encryption device that offers secure data transfer across wireless networks and the Internet. One thing is sure for this market: the future is definitively open-source. This overview contains more details and external references."

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[jea6]

What a moron moderator. Maybe he thinks this is K5 and he was trying to mod the STORY as REDUNDANT. First, there's a shortage of moderator points, second, they get wasted.

Anybody want to know what the perfect solution for dupes is (since my suggestion for re-categorizing outed dupes has not been considered)? Just filter all of Timothy's stories. I don't think he actually reads Slashdot.

And if it Were Windows,

[errxn]

Does anyone think for a second that this article would have been posted on /.?

Umm, doubtful. /bias lives on!