The year 2006 will bring great strides for Linux, but no great revelations, predicts Oliver Kaven, who ponders Linux's potential in a PC Magazine feature article. While nodding to Linux's well-accepted success in the server space, Kaven concludes that embedded Linux will quietly achieve corporate acceptance, with progress slower in the desktop realm.

Kaven asserts that embedded Linux has quietly become ubiquitous in a range of embedded electronic goods for the corporate and consumer market, a point he backs up by listing eleven significant Linux design wins. These include:

• Archos PMA430 — a portable media player similar to the PMA400
• Curitel Identity — a featurephone for US market
• D-Link MediaLounge DSM-320 — a TV media adapter
• Fluke Networks EtherScope Network Assistant — an Ethernet cable and configuration tester in one
• iRiver PMC-120 — a portable media player similar to PMP-120
• Linksys Wireless-G WRT54G — older versions of this classic wireless access point can be easily reflashed by exploiting a CGI bug
• Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (pictured above) — a wireless handheld for web and email
• Phatnoise PhatBox — a harddrive-based car jukebox
• Prismiq MediaPlayer — a digital media hub with web browsing and online chat
• Tivo Series 2 — similar to original Tivo PersonalTV
• TomTom GO — an in-car GPS navigation system

Kaven notes that three of the products listed above received PC Magazine Editor's Choice awards. Read the full story here:

 
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