This whitepaper by Greg Haerr (CEO of Century Software and founder of the Microwindows and ViewML projects) provides an introduction to the use of Linux as an embedded operating system. Haerr reviews the benefits of Linux to embedded applications, explains the basics of graphical windowing system technologies, and provides a technical and architectural overview of both Microwindows (a windowing system for… embedded devices) and ViewML (an embeddable web browser).

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