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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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Right now whatever they're running /. on is not the most popular OS in this poster's view.
Have you guys tried coding the server in feckfeck?
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Here and here.
but does it play bukkakek DIVX? thought not
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Change the rules to suit the propaganda. When people are talking about OS', 99.44% of the time they're referring to PCs. Is it so hard to admit that Windows has huge marketshare simply because it's what has been put in front of the end user?
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"Popular" and "Linux" in the same story? Must be another slashdot typo!
ITRON may be the most popular OS, but I know I'd rather be without this OS I've never heard of than Windows.
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
I think this OS has been discussed many times before on slashdot
It seems ITRON has an unfair monopoly on this market and needs to be subject to more government regulatory policies. We cannot allow unfair business practices to be used by open source software providers to lock out those companies producing closed source software. I plan on writing to my Congressmen and request that action be taken so that Microsoft has a fair chance in this market. I encouracge you all to do the same. After all, it's crucial that we take the necessary steps to protect the freedom of choice in operating systems.
Pretty soon everything you buy that needs to be plugged in will have one of these things in it (running Linux of course) and every Slashdot nerd's dream will have finally come true - Linux running on EVERYTHING.
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Is something 'most popular' when people don't even know it exists? Or if there even is a choice?
It's like saying water is the 'most popular soft-drink' in the world..
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Does it believe in the USER?
And now there is eTRON is coming... Looks like he has been incorporated in the MCP!
You lie! Windows is the most popular operating system in the world! It has sold uh, a GAZILLION copies in all its incarnations! Now, bow down and give mad props to our esteemed leader, Bill Gates! Bill Gates is good. Bill Gates is benevolent. Bill Gates, will you be my friend and mentor?!
...because the users are ignorant of the underlying OS, thus tron is not the most popular OS but the most widely deployed OS. With that said, this is a duplicate article from the past, and I am sick of slashdot insulting our intelligence with stupid sensational headlines.
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> This last effort could lead to the eTRON chip
etron in French means shit.
reading the article is more funny now, isn't it ?
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How many times do we have to beat the Itron horse?
Ya..its the most common.. ya.. its opensource.. ya he got screwd my microsoft... bla bla bla
But we have heard this before, many times...
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people could get sucked into these devices and forced to play weird games to the death by the evil dudes inside their computers...
On the other hand, I would like to try a light-cycle so maybe I will take off my tin-foil hat and buy a mobile...
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Did anyone read the part about RTLinux limitations:
"RTLinux switches tasks in milliseconds, while ITRON switches tasks in microseconds," he said. "RTLinux' footprint is measured in megabytes; ITRON is measured in kilobytes."
Funny to see someone call a Linux version bloated and slow...
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I guess you're Mwongozi right? we read /. everyday, no need to provide links to /. stories everytime something new happens.
This may be OT, but I guess it all boils down to how you define popular. If you consider popular as "regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public", then this rather obscure OS is not the answer, but neither is Windoze, 'cause most people don't usually make this choice, it just comes with their computers, by default. If, however, you take Webster's 6th definition ("Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease. [Obs.] --Johnson."), then... :)
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dupe, fuckers. dupe.
Why not try Linux? Test the waters with the Knoppix Live CD (Boots off of the CD and run's completely from RAM) and if you like it move up to a beginner distribution (install wise) like Mandrake or SuSE. I've been on Linux a couple weeks now it's been mostly an easy switch with only a few text files edited by hand. Linux does everything I need. Give Linux a try - with it's wide variety of free software I think it would suit your needs too.
Shh.
so far it seem big biz is just taking Linux and stealing it for their own projects, i have heard countless reports of companies just taking it , modifying it and not releasing the source back again, because no one individual is responsible for Linux there is no-one to file suit (or has the cash for a team of lawyers) Cisco and Linksys have adopted this strategy (and iam sure everyone else is too), FSF cannot and has not the funds to sue everyone and the legaliity of the GPL has never been tested, until then companies will just keep taking and not giving rather taking the risk of being sued than give the source back
you stupid fucker.
/. every day...you stupid cunt.
apparently some fucks don't read
Just because something is installed on a device, then mass manufactured does not equate to the status of most popular. Most installed, most used, etc... yes. Most Popular, no.
Just trying to keep it clear.
..not when the engineer choose it for them.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
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with over 8 billion processors running on this system, it is by far the most widely used/popular in the wwuniverse. no contest there.
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TRON is obviously the most populous in terms of all electronic devices there are. In terms of PCs, which is what OS typically refers to, Windows would be the most populous, but in terms of popularity that could go two ways. If you are defining popularity as "suited to the means of the majority" or "frequently encountered or widely accepted" that would obviously be Windows. But, if you define popularity as "commonly liked or approved" that would be Linux for the simple reason that the Linux community is much more vociferous about their passion for the OS than Windows users are. Most Windows users use the OS by default and no because they prefer it to other systems.
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According to the ITRON page linked, it is an operating system specification, not an operating system.
That would make it a competitor of Posix, instead of Linux.
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As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist. I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself.
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It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract? I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does..
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss.
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I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours.. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.
Perhaps it's time for us to Boycott this iTron and deem it the evil OS of the mobile world. Guess it doens't matter... if Microsoft has its way, iTron will go the way of Netscape, Word Perfect, and my favorite, OS/2.
More importantly, this isn't a popularity contest. Anyone who thinks open source will win out hasn't be put to task by our corporate overlords and their flying monkey politicians.
Sensational headlines for breaking news that I read everywhere else 48 hours ago. Slashdot is "Old News for Uneducated Nerds." If /. is your news source, you're sucking off the withered teat.
The TOPPERS/JSP kernel (in Japanese) is open source and is an implementation of the iTRON kernel. But iTRON will not be free or open source.
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Popular is something that's widely favoured, based on choice. While you could argue ITRON is popular amongst developers and vendors as an embedded OS, it certainly isn't the OS of choice for consumers who aren't all going out in droves demanding ITRON-powered phones.
So, ITRON, the OS with the biggest market share (based on device numbers not revenue) in the world.
Linux and TRON don't really play in the same space. You can embed Linux only so far...
It'd be much more interesting if they'd brought in a comparison with eCos which is the natural alternative to TRON at a deeply embedded level.
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/
Interestingly enough eCos has a TRON API implementation too.
Doesn't it also turn out that some sort of ARM chip is the most widely used CPU... by like several scale factors?
Of course I think this is all moot. It isn't like anyone is going to stick ITRON on their x86 and word process.
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Does anyone think for a second that this article would have been posted on /.?
/bias lives on!
Umm, doubtful.
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Yep, MS has there hand extended to embrace TRON.....
And I believe I read a slashdot posted article where the US suppressed the evolution of TRON...... I'm sure MS is very grateful....
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Pretty much any Japanese electronic musical instrument maker has used TRON. Yamaha keyboards run it, or derivatives of it, I've been told. That will change now though, with Yamaha's recent announcement that they'll be using Linux.
I've followed TRON since I was a kid hacker in the early 80's, and have watched its use in the industry with eager anticipation of the day it becomes more widely known about in the tech sector.
When Linux came into existence (I've been a Linux user since *day one* of its existence), I decided I need not stay current with TRON, which is a shame because I think a lot of the goals of TRON (E-TRON, actually, its supposed to be called) are achievable right now with Linux in the embedded world.
If ever there was proof needed of just how destructive Microsoft has been for the computer industry, it is the fact that hardly anyone in the Western Tech sector (sillicon valley) knows about TRON and what this project was supposed to achieve... and, actually, still is capable of achieving... The project is based around shared source, completely open amongst competing hardware manufacturers.
Embedded kernels running in every electronic device known to man, capable of talking to each other discretely and without human interaction, to create a sort of 'Boewulf cluster' of embedded systems capable of sharing loads and processing power.
TRON was a kick ass project. And everything we've wanted to do with TRON, we can now do with Linux.
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fix the post title, man...
most used os, perhaps, popular, no.
popular denotes that the end user might have some choice in the matter, as far as deciding the OS to be used. prolific because a manufacturer predetermined for the end user.
windows might be a pretty popular, but that's mostly because OEM's don't always have a choice of which operating system they can bundle... 90% of the worlds computers are using some redmond derivative operating system, but once again, probably not always by end user choice...
mac os might be a popular choice, but it requires specific hardware... so using/purchasing the os is a much steeper entry point, however, to claim a user base(world wide) of 3-5% might be seen as being pretty popular...
linux, bsd, and other un*x derivative might also be considered much more popular than itron... why? because the end user(s) chose to install it amongst other choices.
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Yeah, but just think of all of the Windows users who don't know what OS they are using, even though its name is shown on the screen every time the turn on their computers.
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I don't think any of these definitions of 'popular' fit ITRON at all.
Nice try. Grow up and come back later.
linux and windows and ... are a way to run away from TROn :) ... so what.
:)
anyway i have never heard of it before
like we all know if the japanese invent something
"new" they NEVER share it with anyone until they
got something "newer".
but they are really good at copying/cloneing existant
technology. maybe because they are such a small country
with no resources (protect their future)?
anyway to hell with TROn. let's look ahead!
START FROM SCRATCH! i REALLY REALLY feel like it!
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Windows is no more popular than having the flu or getting a traffic ticket.
How is stating facts now propaganda?
98% of all statistics are made up on the spot!
" When people are talking about OS', 99.44% of the time they're referring to PCs. Is it so hard to admit that Windows has huge marketshare simply because it's what has been put in front of the end user?"
Is it so hard to admit that ANY thing but a PC can have an operating system?
It's not about your precious Windows. Sorry that he inferred that your pet software was not the most prolific. Get over it!
1. It's iTRON not eTRON. Read the Japanese version (and if you're really familiar with iTRON, I'm sure you'll be able to)
./ these days?
2. iTRON is not free or open source. It's derivative JSP/TOPPERS Kernel is.
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"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
ITRON? huh?
I had Tron 1.0 since mid-80s, ins't it obsolete now?
and now I have Tron 2.0 which is even more interactive and has better GUI, so wtf?
Where's the facts? Gimme Links, troll!
But why would communists dirty their hands funding anyone? All good commies do it solely for the glorious revolution. They don't believe in the capitalist system!
Now we have the filthy capitalist swine making an imoral profit from Free Stuff!
Just look at Redhat, making a profit. Look at Suse, look at Mandrake... ok Scratch Mandrake they may have to learn what a the profit model looks like.
I guess you think that we should have the filthy capitalist swine making an imoral profit from only Proprietary Stuff! What is the difference?
Yes, I own stock in Redhat!
That having been said, it's also not really fair to call (GNU/)Linux 'an OS' - it's really a toolkit for building OSes. There is a huge variety of systems that are called Linux but can't run each other's programs without porting effort.
And the same can be said for Windows - 9x, NT, Me, 2K, XP, CE (and server variants, including 2003) have annoying incompatibilities between them that preclude considering them the same OS.
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3 billion? So what? Linux as an embedded OS has only gained popularity in the last few years. What about all the other embedded RTOS's and OS's that have been around for years? They undoubtedly hold much more share.
You don't have a fucking clue do you, much less intelligence. Most Used == Most Popular!
Get that through your pointy head.
can the world's most populous OS run Photoshop????
I don't see any screenshots on that website... *looks around*
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Am I the only one who sees this as the most widely used OS in the world and not the most popular?
I mean, popularity would indicate that most mainstream audiances understand who/what you are, while if your the most used few/none could care to think about you.
That's like saying the most popular invention in the world is the zipper, because everyone has one.
On basis of popularity I'd definitly say it's OS X, although I hate OS X, I'm not dumb enough to brush off it's popularity, windows following pretty close, with linux trailing further. Does this indicate which is used more, or even better? No, that's why we say it's popular, and not the best/most widely used.
The Free competitors to iTRON are not RTLinux (and RTNetBSD) as the article (half fails to) point out. The competitors are eCos and RTEMS. The latter is clearly the more mature, but the former is arguably more modern in design. ECos hasn't the penetration that iTRON has achieved, but RTEMS is everywhere, and is equally invisible.
If an open-source implementation of ITRON did exist, someone would have pulled the openly available sources off a Japanese server and we'd be playing with them right now.
At best, there is an open specification of ITRON whereas all implementations are proprietary. Furthermore, even that "open" specification appears to be tied in with privileged access if you want to see anything resembling actual code APIs or architectural details at a finer level than boxes, lines and clouds. I guess that that stems from all implementations being closed.
The possibility always remains that we simply don't see all the detailed material because of the language barrier, but there are more than enough cross-linguists in open-source ranks to have disabused us of that misapprehension by now.
ITRON just doesn't actually appear to exist at all, in an open-source sense. The billions of instances burned into microcontroller chips are definitely not open.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
Im surprised they dont mention QNX, when its comes to anything embedded. The japanese bullet train system runs QNX... uhhh..THATS ALL FOLKS!! QNX 4 LIFE!!!
or its close cousin while(1) are far more common in embedded systems than itron. The infinite loop can't be beat for its simplicity and is therefore the most common scheduler on the planet.
Oh well, what the hell...
What about wrist watches? Most all Casio digital watches are probably derived from the same base "OS" (term used as loosely as in article). If so I'm sure there are billions of that "OS" in consumer devices as well.
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To put it another way, awareness doesn't equal popularity. An overwhelming majority of Americans are aware that George Bush is president. But a substantially lower number, perhaps even a minority, would want him to remain president. Maybe Windows is the most visible OS, but that doesn't make it the most popular one either.
after your brain death it would appear to be a waste of money
I mean, lots of people know who hitler is, but that dosn't make him "popular" :P
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Lots of people use windows and hate it. From memories of constant crashes in the 3.11/98 days to the constant security holes today windows users have lots of reasons to lothe the OS.
I use windows because I'm a lazy bastard. I Recently switched to Mozilla when some Spyware got installed on my machine during a normal web-surfing session. I don't know if I accidentally clicked "yes" on something I should have, but who knows. AdAware didn't even find the file, and I had to look for references to new files in the registry to get rid of the shit (they called it win32.dll...)
At some point, probably when win2k becomes obsolete I'll switch to Linux. But in the interim I'll use windows and bitch
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I just checked my Apache logs and no Itron. 98% Wind'ers. Here comes that falling tree in my forest.
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It may have been used in 3 billion devices like phones, CD players, etc. but how many of those devices are still in service? I've been through probably 6 cell phones over the last decade; all but one are in a landfill someplace.
Even factoring that in, however, it's probably true that there are more instances of some embedded OS in operation than any single desktop or server OS, but that's an apples-to-oranges comparasion, IMO.
If you thought it was the Toyota Camry or Chevy S-10 you'd be wrong.
It was the shoe!
Billions of people buy shoes each year. Shoes are important. Everybody wants shoes, not everybody wants a Toyota Camry.
I've already seen an article about TRON *months* ago. For me, personally, I don't think I'll be reading slashdot again. Good bye, it's been quite nice whilst it lasted.
Sure, trust all your embedded devices to eTRON, but when the eMCP takes over, then you will be sorry.
What about frogs? I like frogs!
duh.
Change the question slightly and you're guaranteed a unanimous answer!
There is a big difference between what is the most popular and what is used the most... maybe the question should be what is the least popular OS... the answer may be the same.
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1. the question should say "What Is The Most Popular Real Time OS in the World?" for the answer to be "ITRON". then i will not answer Windows and you wont have to tell me "If your answer is Windows, you're plain wrong."
2. Windows is not a RTOS. so cant compare it with ITRON in the RTOS area.
3. You have a choice as to what u want as ur OS on ur PC. but do u really have a choice when it comes to "mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players and many other electronic devices including even satellites." ???
4. This article is one of many that just want to bash Windows just because everyone else is. If u want to bash Windows there are many valid points for that... dont make one up with a false headline.
5. hey... i'm not here to carry the flag for Windows or for Linux. But there is no need to bash Windows on a false headline. So if you ask "What Is The Most Popular OS in the World?" and mean "popular" as in "chosen by users" then the answer is certainly Windows.
So often I get asked "...and what sort of Windows do you use?"
Really, the word is being used as a synonym for OS, much like Xerox is used as a synonym for photocopier (and photocopying, if you're into verbing as much as the USA is), or Biro a synonym for ball-point pen (typically consistent for English, nobody says "biroing" to indicate writing with a ball-point pen).
You have to ask given this how many really mean "Windows" and how many mean "OS" or even "software" in general.
Imagine roads where 95% of all vehicles were Ladas. Think about how many people would refer to loading up the Lada for a holiday, or getting the Lada serviced, even if the were one of the few who drove a Peugeot.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
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..on my web site the most popular OS is one called "Unknown" which is used by 55.24% of visitors!
:)
http://www.muttsnutts.com/html/stats.php
I'd be using it myself, but I'm waiting for Unknown 2 which has working USB support
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Message for the OSS afficiondos out there:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
I've tried very hard to locate actual sourcecode of TRON, be it ITRON, BTRON or whatever "tron".
Despite being publicly termed "open-sourced", the sourcecode of TRON is actually very hard to find.
Can anyone here please point out to us where we can get the source code of TRON, so at least we can see how they achieve their "small footprint" and their "real" RTOS position, versus somebody's claim that RTLinux isn't a "real" RTOS.
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You keep using that word -- I do not think it means, what you think it means.
There are no trolls. There are no trees out here.
By far the most popular OS choice is "none", beating out all other OS choices more than 10 to 1.
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Sure there are a lot of phones, but there are a lot more VCRs, microwave ovens, toasters, printers, fax machines, street lights...
The majority of the worlds electronic equipment runs on an embedded PC and has custom designed software written in the worlds most popular computer language - assembly.
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Most common user of operating system is monkey, not human!
Sure, ITRON may be the most popular, but wait till SCO finds out.