Re: Help me one-up my brother!
Rob Pearson <[email protected]>
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I think this video is a great engaging add for Linux, at least the start is. You can't say it isn't going anywhere when you've watched this. He lists many uses including devices in the home, with some interesting stats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTHdcmjenI I listened again and noted: phones, cars, TVs, banks, air traffic control, nuclear submarines, most of the internet, almost all of the worlds most powerful computers, stock exchanges, Google ,Facebook, Amazon, 2 million new phones and TVs every day. I don't think he mentioned PVRs (not Sky), or tablets. Rob On 20/01/14 1:28 PM, Reece Arnott wrote: > I was talking to my brother at Christmas and he was tweaking me about > Linux and how it wasn't going anywhere. He happened to be speaking to > me on an Android phone and was a little surprised at my tweaking him > back for his unintended irony as he was talking to me via a Linux > based device. Since then I've been thinking of making a quick > 'identifying Linux devices around the home' email for the family. > > For example, for home routers it would be something like "If it > doesn't have CISCO on it, it will be running Linux". (Is that still > true by the way? Does anyone have counter-examples to that or any > numbers on what percentage of home routers are Linux based etc.?) > > With maybe an additional note about the "cousins" of Linux (I thought > the easiest way of explaining them was 'functionally equivalent but > with different licences about sharing the source code') and how they > fit into things eg. Mac OS X being made from parts of OpenBSD and > FreeBSD etc. > > If I'm going to do this it probably makes sense to ask you guys for > help compiling my list :-) > > Anyone got a few sentences to quickly identify a whole range of > devices and/or links to surveys with numbers of devices running > embedded Linux systems? > _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/