LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum interviewed eight Linux and open source luminaries, to assemble this perspective on “What is Linux?” for the embedded Linux market. Lehrbaum writes . . .

“What is Linux? Why even ask that question?”

“Linux is in the midst of being shaped and molded to fit thousands of applications ranging from tiny hand-held (or smaller) appliances to huge cluster-based supercomputers. That process is advanced by the free and open availability of Linux source code. As Linux gets adapted to the unique requirements of an expanding universe of system designs, questions like “When does Linux cease to be Linux?” or, more simply, “What is Linux?” come to mind.”

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