The term compatibility has been widely misused, OS's claiming to be 'compatible' as such — without stating to what they are compatible. So first a clarification as to how this term is being used here. Compatibility between embedded OS and desktop development systems is one aspect here, this compatibility being on the hardware and… (more…)

During the development of embedded GNU/Linux projects a few main modes of operation have evolved. These modes will be briefly described in the next sections, showing the flexibility of embedded GNU/Linux. This flexibility is a product of the wide range of hardware Linux and embedded Linux has been deployed on — ranging from commodity… (more…)

Embedded systems, even in their high-end variants, are resource constraint systems by desktop or server standards. At the same time, complexity of operations require many optimization strategies that were designed for server and desktop systems to be utilized in embedded systems as well. (more…)