Talk:Embedded Linux

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i hear a lot of people here in brazil which call that low level programming language "assembler". wouldn't it be "assembly"? for me assembler is the part of a compiler which does the dirty work... if so, in the first paragraph, "using proprietary software coded in assembler." would be "using proprietary software coded in assembly" which i think is the right name for the programming language. sorry for the informal language, i'm just proposing a minor change, i'd do myself, but i thought i'd better ask people before. 201.21.255.222 05:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

The page previously said that Windows CE is around 21 MB vs 2 MB for embedded Linux, which isn't apples and apples. A bare-bones configuration of CE 5, with just a network stack and a few server apps, is as small or smaller than an embedded Linux firmware image. The space difference is mainly due to the extra run-time configuration stuff available in Linux via /proc, the module loader, the permissions subsystem, etc. --Thalakan 08:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and we were targeting the same processor (486 DX) and the same SBC with both platforms. --Thalakan 08:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fewer external links, this is not a web portal

This article focuses too much on giving readers links to product and project websites. If there is a Wikipedia article about a topic, this article should link to that article, not the project's external website. We're not hear to direct readers to the right website, we are writing an encyclopedia. Gronky 15:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added discussion, removed Red Hat

I added some clarification of what embedded Linux entails and a statement about the ELC.

I also removed Red Hat from the list because they don't really support embedded Linux these days. I added yet another link because folks reading the article probably are interested in finding out more. The link is to LinuxDevices.com which is really the leading web site for embedded Linux information.

Oysterpoboy 17:54, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms by Wind River and MontaVista

Recent article on Embedded.com, indicates that Wind River and MontaVista are currently running full-page ads implying that Embedded Linux is unreliable and expensive to keep up. Given the author is a Green Hills representative, I'm hesitant to ascribe much to the article, but I thought I would pass it on to see if people more familiar with the subject felt there was any merit to it. -Fuzzy (talk) 17:19, 7 May 2008 (UTC)