RE: Oh no! . . . "Embedded Linux" doesn't exist

Hi Karim,

I feel that same that "embedded Linux" is an adjective.
Your article makes the point more clear.

Often, I tried to use "Linux inside" or "Linux embedded" to describe our
embedded systems that use Linux as operating system.  Yet, it gives the
impression that we are putting a desktop into an embedded system.

Hopefully, the "Embedded Linux" has more strict meaning when we use as
noun again.

Ken Chou

-----Original Message-----

Oh no! . . . "Embedded Linux" doesn't exist -- Karim
Yaghmour, author of "Building Embedded Linux Systems," has
published an interesting opinion column at O'Reilly Network
(the publisher of his book), in which he suggests that
"Embedded Linux" doesn't really exist, other than within the
"hype" fostered by "marketoids." "Embedded Linux is the stuff
of glitzy announcements, hype, and other marketing mumbo
jumbo," writes Yaghmour, a strong advocate of open source software.

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/05/12/embedlinux.html

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