Embedded Linux
Embedded Linux is the designation for Linux-based operating systems that are used as embedded operating systems in cell phones, personal digital assistants, media player handsets and other consumer electronics devices. Linux is also suitable for other embedded applications such as networking equipment, machine control, industrial automation, navigation equipment, and medical instruments.
Embedded Linux can be characterized as different from desktop and server versions of Linux in that embedded Linux is designed for devices with comparably limited resources, such as smaller sizes of RAM and much more limited secondary storage. Embedded Linux based devices frequently involve flash memory based secondary storage instead of a hard disk. Embedded Linux is scale down version of Linux operating systems.
