One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

I first met John Lombardo at the Embedded Internet Conference in August 2000. John told me he was working on a book about embedded Linux, which would be published within a year. In contrast to the ...

This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...

With the falling cost of 32-bit processors containing a memory management unit (MMU), Flash memory and SDRAM, a new class of embedded devices is evolving in the networking, internet appliance and PDA ...

Raspberry Pi has introduced and released the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. I happen to have four Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 devices on my bench along with a couple of Raspberry Pi Compute ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

Should you choose Linux or Windows for your next embedded project? Before you begin an embedded project, you have a number of choices to make. Some of these decisions about hardware will be ...

Embedded systems are getting a lot out of Linux. What has to happen to get patches back to the core kernel? In many ways, Andrew Morton’s keynote set the tone for this year’s Embedded Linux Conference ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Metrowerks Corp. has agreed to acquire the key assets of embedded Linux vendor Embedix Inc. (Linden, Utah). The deal gives Metrowerks, based here, the ability to bundle the Embedix ...