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

[Ken Chou]

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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