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What Is The Most Popular OS in the World?

Posted by timothy on from the depends-how-you're-counting dept.

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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  1. Featured on SlashDot before by Mwongozi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here and here.

  2. Cute. by echucker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Cute. by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ... and then you have to take into account the fact that they use the words "most popular" when practically nobody has even heard of it. Most used, sure, but isn't a requriement for popularity having people actually know about it?

      -- Dr. Eldarion --

  3. Most used DOES NOT equate to most popular here by segmond · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...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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    ------ Curiosity killed the cat. {satisfaction brought it back | it didn't die ignorant | lack of it is killing mankind
  4. Re:What Is The Most Popular OS in the World? by kfg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until, of course, nearly every electronic device that you own that uses computer logic (CD player, car, TV, possibly even your internet connection) stops working.

    You've probably never heard of every amino acid you need either while picking up that two litre bottle of Mountain Dew.

    You'd still regret their absence.

    KFG

  5. Re:The future. by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 5, Funny
    Linux is not the be all and end all of operating systems

    Blasphemy! Say 5 Hail Linus' and kiss the holy penguin!

  6. Is it an OS? by pe1chl · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.