This is Rick Lehrbaum's “traditional” report on “all things Linux” at the Embedded Systems Conference which took place during the week of April 9, 2001 in San Francisco, California. Lehrbaum briefly describes many of the Embedded Linux oriented exhibits, takes us on a photo tour of some cool Embedded Linux based devices that were being shown off, and offers his assessment of the current state of the… Embedded Linux industry. There's even a “best of show award” for the “geekiest demo” at ESC! Lehrbaum writes . . .

“In my writings about past Embedded Systems Conferences, I've characterized the impact of Linux on the embedded market as a 'disruptive technology' that was rewriting the rules of the game. Not any more — the disruption now appears to be complete! Linux is now a full-fledged, mainstream participant in the embedded market, judging by the software, hardware, and tools exhibited at this year's annual embedded technology mega-show.”

“Not that this was a big surprise, for a recently released subscriber survey conducted by Embedded Systems Programming magazine already exposed embedded Linux as the #2 embedded OS in terms of “consideration” for new designs, and #4 in terms of actual usage. The clear impression I got from this ESC is that Linux has now attained the status of being among the top three embedded operating systems — which is right where it needs to be at this point in time.”

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