Rick Lehrbaum, of LinuxDevices.com writes . . .

“Linux vs. Windows. It's a battle fought on many fronts. While a worldwide legion of Linux developers has successfully mounted a frontal attack on Microsoft's WinNT in the servers, routers, firewalls, and telecommunications markets, the open-source community has quietly set its sites on another of Microsoft's three OSes: WinCE — the Windows operating… system for handheld and embedded devices . . .”

“First, it was necessary to strip Linux down to a size that fits the constrained resources of embedded systems . . .”

“The second challenge for Linux to overcome, to successfully grab the embedded market away from WinCE, was the need for an easy-to-use and easy-to-embed graphical user interface (GUI). Until now, a truly embeddable full-function open-source GUI for Linux just wasn't available. But all that is now changing, as a result of the growing functionality and availability of Microwindows — an open-source project aimed at bringing the features of modern graphical windowing environments to Linux based embedded devices.”

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