Panasonic Forms Embedded Linux Incubator

An anonymous reader writes "Panasonic has opened an embedded Linux incubator in Silicon Valley, where it hopes to host and collaborate with several Linux startups, in exchange for 'first right-of-refusal on up to 10 percent of the startup's next institutional funding round'. From the article: 'Panasonic uses other open sources OSes in addition to Linux, but Linux has become a top choice due to its cost-effectiveness and robust nature,' according to the Center's director. Panasonic is in the same corporate family as Matsushita, which is one of the founding members of the Consumer Electronics Linux Foundation (CELF)."

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but Linux has become a top choice

[jellomizer]

"but Linux has become a top choice due to its cost-effectiveness and robust nature". It couldn't be that next to Windows and Macintosh, Linux has the most recognizable name for an OS? Linux in the the most robust OS out there. I have seen BSDs, Solaris, and systems run much more robustly then Linux. And the BSD's and some versions of Solaris are free as well, and pretty damn close to use.

Re:but Linux has become a top choice

[Anonymous Coward]

Being popular is part of being cost effective, more people familiar with it.

Re:but Linux has become a top choice

[Kjella]

Well, compared to all the "more robust" systems you mention, I imagine better embedded device support is the deciding factor. Robustsness is not an absolute, most embedded devices don't run with the redundancy, quality and whatnot to be a 99,99999% uptime system anyway. Besides, if you take a known, fixed hardware configuration and load test the hell out of it, how many problems do you really have left on linux?

Kjella