What is the importance linux in Embedded systems? why not windows?

[Surender Reddy]

What is the importance linux in Embedded systems? why not windows?
if we go for arm processors, the os is in linux. How it is secured?

 

[sarathhari]

Linux is the open source platform available and as it is open source we can view and verify it even from the kernel level but windows is not allowing that freedom to us. As we are dealing with embedded systems we must integrate hardware and software according to our needs. So linux is the best option coz we can even write basic kernel level drivers also according to our requirement.

 

[betwixt]

And Windows is orientated toward keyboard, graphical video and a mouse, items which are probably not present in an embedded environment. It is also massively bigger than the Linux core.

Brian.

 

[micro-hopless]

HOST ARCHITECTURE !

Windows runs on x86 or x86_64 and, if you play real nice with Microsh**it, you can run Wincrap 8 on a specific ARM platform.

Linux runs on just about anything. As far as I know the only requirement is a MMU unit.

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By the way, embedded linux systems are not considered embedded systems by advanced programmers.

A real embedded system has come to be known as BAREBONE. Anything with a general OS is NOT an embedded system, it's just another industrial computer.