Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> (It's also popular for embedded applications, but 
> that presumably is due to its extreme portability and configurability 
> more than anything else...)

It is only popular for embedded operations as Linux, not Unix. Before Linux, 
nobody used Unix for embedded applications. Now it's popular for embedded 
applications purely because it's free. It's actually quite a PITA to use on 
embedded devices.

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