A developer chronicles his team's experience with embedding Linux in a PowerPC-based project and compares the process to development based on VxWorks, in this interesting article at Embedded.com. The team chose to go the “roll your own” route, along with some assistance from an outside consulting group (rather than using a commercial Embedded Linux toolkit). Would he do it again?

“I just completed a project doing embedded Linux on a PowerPC based system, and it was an eye opening experience. I've been interested in embedded Linux for a few years now, invested some time to learn the technology, and when the opportunity was presented to me to do a project with Linux from 'soup to nuts,' I jumped on it. As a consultant, I've spent the last 15 years making my bread and butter doing VxWorks-based projects, and relished at the chance to deploy a project with Linux. The founders of the company I went to work for were particularly attracted to Linux due to the pricing structure (at first glance, free), not to mention the numerous benefits of working with Open Source . . .”

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