TECHNOLOGIES

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Technologies

Open Source Software

Open source software is one of the fundamental reasons for using Linux. There is an extensive array of software that is available for use with Linux. Linux itself and as well as much of the open source software is available for use under the GPL or LGPL licenses. These licenses grant the user the freedom to run the software, to modify it and to distribute the software.

Some of the open source software packages that are commonly used in embedded systems or to develop embedded systems include:

GCC, GDB
Eclipse IDE framework
Linux
Bootloaders
Protocol stacks
Servers such as telnet, ftp, http
Busybox utilities
C libraries such as newlib and uClibc
RTAI for hard real-time
Command Line Interfaces

The following is a collection of some of the links to open source software:

freshmeat: large index of Unix and cross-platform open source
GNU: operating system (Linux) and free software foundation
LinuxDevices: source for embedded Linux information
sourceforge: large number of open source projects are hosted on the site