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Behind The Coolest Gadgets - Linux or Windows?

Posted by timothy on from the no-wait-it's-forth dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Sister sites LinuxDevices and WindowsForDevices have kicked off what they're calling the Great Embedded Device Smack-Down, to see whether Linux or Windows Embedded powers the best and coolest devices. The Smackdown highlights more than 350 gadgets in nine categories, along with some entertaining "pre-game commentary" featuring the latest market share figures for the two OSes and a whacky clipart image of Stone Cold Bill Gates taking on The Tux."

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  1. iPod? by mblase · · Score: 4, Informative

    The iPod's OS isn't MacOS. It isn't even made by Apple. They bought the OS and most of the hardware spec from PortalPlayer and then customized it to their liking.

  2. Linux or Windows on the best devices? by airjrdn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Tivo runs Linux....nuff said.

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  3. Re:Neither? by koi88 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not mac os, not linux, not windows.
    Apple bought the iPod's operating system from Pixo, a small company, that meanwhile has been acquired by Sun (try www.pixo.com).
    It seems to be a proprietary OS.
    Some information: http://www.fact-index.com/p/pi/pixo.html

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  4. One of the coolest gadgets: Tomtom GO by MrBoombasticfantasti · · Score: 4, Informative
    I recently got a Tomtom GO navigation system and it is absolutely awesome. Link may be a bit flash heavy.

    It runs Linux and it's miles better (pun intended) than the Windows CE counterpart Tomtom Navigator 3 which has occasional glitches.

    If only it could run *BSD... ;-)

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  5. Re:Mars Rovers by bsd4me · · Score: 3, Informative

    IIRC, Wind River had a picture on their homepage of one of the previous Mars projects with a blurb saying that it ran VxWorks

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  6. Re:Nope. by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Informative
    Considering Compaq does support iPaqs with Linux (send a borked install to their Research Lab, and it comes back with Linux), I'd say that it's at least semi-official that Linux runs on iPaqs even if it's not a shipping option. Compaq even hosts handhelds.org and has paid engineers to work on the distros for the iPaq.

    Iffy, sure, but not unreasonable to include iPaqs under both categories as a 'Windows' and 'Linux' device.

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