Claimed-first EPIC SBC runs embedded Linux
anon April  09 2004

Octagon Systems is shipping from stock what it claims to be the first
available single-board computer (SBC) in the new EPIC (Embedded Platform
for Industrial Computing) form-factor .. is available with an optional
Linux 2.6 starter kit, and targets military, security, industrial, and
mobile applications ...

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5832879228.html
- unquote -

I figure this kind of thing is what DanO is really afraid of ..


"RTOS vendor Green Hills and its CEO Dan O'Dowd have launched
a broadside against the use of Linux in military and defense
applications" April 09 2004

Subject: Linux a national security risk says RTOS vendor
Message-ID: <c561ba$2psngf$1@ID-168140.news.uni-berlin.de>

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Daeron
<daeron@demon.net>
 wrote
on Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:52:49 +0100
<c5bpki$2qspch$1@ID-168140.news.uni-berlin.de>:
> Claimed-first EPIC SBC runs embedded Linux
> anon April  09 2004
>
> Octagon Systems is shipping from stock what it claims to be the first
> available single-board computer (SBC) in the new EPIC (Embedded Platform
> for Industrial Computing) form-factor .. is available with an optional
> Linux 2.6 starter kit, and targets military, security, industrial, and
> mobile applications ...
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5832879228.html
> - unquote -
>
> I figure this kind of thing is what DanO is really afraid of ..
>
>
> "RTOS vendor Green Hills and its CEO Dan O'Dowd have launched
> a broadside against the use of Linux in military and defense
> applications" April 09 2004
>
> Subject: Linux a national security risk says RTOS vendor
> Message-ID: <c561ba$2psngf$1@ID-168140.news.uni-berlin.de>

Well, yes, everyone knows that Embedded XP, like WinCE before it,
is far better at military applications than Linux is -- mostly
because Microsoft employs more salespeople...

:-)

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