The most common issues on Embedded Linux are similar to issues in a standard Linux distribution. These range from administration/management issues (which packages to install, setting the right build options, etc.) to run-time issues (limited disk/swap space due to improper allocation; not enough memory – still very much an issue for an Embedded Linux system).

Linux is becoming a very popular operating system, especially for embedded domain. From 1991 it was continuously developed and now it is one of the most popular operating system. A lot of hardware platforms (microcontrollers) are using embedded Linux, some of them being ARM, PowerPC, Intel.

Linux is a Unix-type operating system which uses the Linux kernel. The name - Linux- comes from the Linux kernel, written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The system's utilities and libraries usually come from the GNU operating system, announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. The following article presents some boards that are running on Linux.