14 Industrial Embedded Linux Case Studies 57
An anonymous reader writes "This article presents a collection of papers and presentations on the use of embedded Linux in the "real world" that was assembled by the Industrial Embedded Systems (INES) organization, a project to promote the adoption of Open Source software funded by the European Union. The papers show some of the exciting and esoteric applications that the industrial world finds for embedded Linum. From vibration health monitoring systems to crane scales to giant LED signs at sports stadiums, that little penguin (a.k.a. Tux) shows up in the darnedest places."
More embedded Linux sponsors... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:More embedded Linux sponsors... (Score:4, Interesting)
Linux is great and all, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Linux is great and all, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux is great and all, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, but without Linux, you'd never be able to generate that Internet-delivered error log that shows which LEDs are have ceased to function.
Surely you don't suggest *looking* at them?
Re:Linux is great and all, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Indoor and outdoor LED display vendor TecnoVision, S.p.A. used the open source KA9Q Network Operating System for TCP/IP over Packet Radio to improve product functionality and flexibility, while reducing time to market and design risks. The 26 year-old Italian company makes signs used in advertisement, sport and entertainment events, live concerts, and for road information.
"Little LED's" ? Read more here [linuxdevices.com]
Re:Linux is great and all, but... (Score:2, Informative)
www.tron.org and www.qnx.com
Linux is a wannabie of everything, which is what Commodore wanted to be and they all end up doing a little bit of this and that and not specalising and being GOOD at something, just ADEQUATE.
Re:Linux is great and all, but... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Linux is great and all, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Here are some (Score:5, Informative)
Awesome (Score:3, Interesting)
Personally, I think it'll be cool, when they build a stadium that has a plastic membrane playing surface that they can use to display graphics on.
Re:Awesome (Score:4, Interesting)
Personally, I think it'll be cool, when they build a stadium that has a plastic membrane playing surface that they can use to display graphics on.
Personally, I'll pass. It's annoying enough to watch soccer mathes with advertisements projected on the pitch using computers. Thankfully they don't do that when the ball is in play.
Re:Awesome (Score:1, Offtopic)
Your already spending upwards of 100 dollars to watch a bunch of overpaid cry babies who have a poor appriecation of the term "team".
You might as well get a bunch of blaring, sex and violence filled advertisements as well!
The idea is to simulate the home viewing experience as much as possible.
Seriously, you wouldn't want to watch a video of the Coor's light girls mud wrestling in a box by the quarterbacks feet!
How about when a reciever is running for a touch down, yo
INES (Score:5, Informative)
There's also an even more interesting page about [uni-mb.si] the INES, but the content is in some scary language.
Embedded Linum??? (Score:5, Funny)
What is this Linum you speak of? And where can I get the
Where are you hiding Linux? (Score:4, Interesting)
What about the bad ones? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Aside from the problem I have with the word "Linum", do these papers show any of the less-than-successful open source deployments/projects?
Call my cynical, but I'm going to take any report about the success of OSS from an organization whose goal is to "promote the adoption of Open Source software" with a grain of objectivity salt.
LINUM, mmm, yummy new word to eat... (Score:4, Funny)
Darn! Linum.com is already taken!
ummm... (Score:4, Funny)
Umm...if you don't know what "that little penguin" is called, why are you doing reading
Mandatory offtopic comment (Score:2, Funny)
plural for "Linux"? (Score:4, Funny)
Shouldn't that be Linii ?
Re:plural for "Linux"? (Score:1)
Linuces
Linum for embedded systems development. (Score:5, Funny)
Here at my company, which develops industrial automation systems, I've heard a lot of buzz about this Linum. The engineers over in C3 (the software development area) say that Linum is much better than Linux for embedded applications, mostly because it ends with "m" instead of "x"...
Of course, I've heard some heated arguments in the cafeteria about Linux vs. Linum, and I think the whole thing is turning into a big holy war over here. Kind of like the 1TBS.
Freebox (Score:5, Interesting)
The interesting thing (besides running Linux) is that there are already 140,000 out there, with about 1 million forecast for the end of next year. 1 million embedded Linux users.
More information can be found at Free's site [adsl.free.fr] (my ISP) or for a slightly more technical review here [hifocus.net], all in French.
Amazingly, it was still not reported by LinuxDevices neither by Slashdot...
Re:Freebox (Score:1)
Still waiting for linux security cameras (Score:2, Interesting)
fresh clean... (Score:1)
Re:fresh clean... (Score:1)