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You’d think people would be bored with forming embedded Linux consortia by now. But the creation of Linaro demonstrates that there was least one unfilled niche.

Set up by ARM and a bunch of chipmakers, Linaro is different to some of the others that have appeared over the past few years, which are mainly intended to provide ready-made environments for mobile phones and internet tablets.

All of these groups run the risk of being home to nothing more than tumbleweed. A bundle of source code gets dumped in shortly after creation but interest wanes as developers concentrate on the major platforms - right now that’s likely to be Android.

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