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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
No one will be able to top this, cromag!
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Don't make any big bets on that.
Technically, Linux is the Linux kernel - vmlinuz. If it uses a Linux kernel, it's a Linux system.
Lots of things use Linux kernels.
Any Android device is a Linux system. Amazon Kindles and B&N Nooks are Linux systems, using custom builds of Android with a UI designed for their use cases. Amazon and B&N make the source code for their firmware available. they have to - Linux is issued under the Gnu Public License, and the GPL
requires you to provide source. (People were looking at getting Nook Tablets and Kindle Fires to root them, and get a cheap general purpose Android tablet. I recommended the Nook Tablet. It cost about $50 more than the Fire, but had much better specs, and could take a microSD card for additional storage.)
My former Linksys wireless router was a Linux system, using a Linux 2.6 kernel. Because it was Linux, source was available, and you could hack the router firmware. Various people did, and you have things like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and CeroWRT which are all alternatives to the stock firmware on Linux based routers. I ran a package called Tomato, which would let me SSH to a command line
on the router, and do things like run Busybox vi to diddle config files. (My SO was bemused at me running vi
on the router.)
I haven't seen Linux on a smartwatch yet, but it probably exists.
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Dennis