Re: [RE: [oc] What about Crusoe]

["Marko Mlinar" <Marko.Mlinar@campus.fri.uni-lj.si>]

> And
> >They did no such thing - Embedded Linux will work equally well on
anyone's
> >"information appliance" while the Crusoe can run any OS that works on the
> X86.
> >The two were announced together, but they are not related.
>
> But why does a semiconductor company doing processors announce an
operating
> system? As I understand it they are not using generic embedded Linux, but
> one with proprietary optimizations for the Crusoe processor. Very strange.
As I see it Linus is pretty popular and was pretty suitable for attracting
media
response. How else could Transmeta get it advertise its processor?
And besides - laptops are used mainly in business, which mostly needs
Microsoft applications...

Marko