Everybody knows Linux as an open-source operating system - available today for many different hardware architectures - which has become the de facto alternative to the Redmond’s product, especially in the servers segment. What is interesting to notice is that Linux is the most widely used O.S. on supercomputers, so we can say: "supercomputers love Linux!".

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a compact yet complete Ubuntu system that can be executed directly in Windows as if it were a regular software application designed for that operating system.

Wireless routers are very cheap and have been widely deployed in SOHO and public WiFi hotspots.

Let us explore how to install a full Debian distribution on an emulated ARM926 machine with QEMU.  The consumer now have alternative choices for their devices. On the other hand, the developers can leverage the native compiler coming with the ARM Linux distribution to build their projects with less effort. No more cross-compiler is necessary now. You can also setup a build farm to speed up your native build with distcc.  The development requirement is almost identical to the desktop system.

Software emulators have great value for the software developers who are focusing on high level application software.

Android is claimed to be an open source smart phone platform, many organizations and individuals can port Android to any candidate platforms, including smart phones, MIDs, Netbooks, WebPads and PNDs.

One Wire File system (OWFS) is a Linux application (also available on Windows) which allows to work with 1-Wire devices as if they were regular file - read and write operations performed on a file are actually executed on the physical device.

Setting up USB sniffing in linux is useful for seeing what is being communicated to/from USB devices.

Since Linux is known for its embedded capability this article will tell you what an Embedded System is all about.

This is a step-by-step guide to build an embedded Linux system. This article takes you through the steps and tells you exactly how to build it correctly for your system, given hardware.