Re:The State of Linux Security
by nickpsecurity on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:34PM
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As foofoo said, they often don't use OS's so much as libraries and loops. There are OS's that have been out there for a while for tiniest devices. Contiki is probably a nice intro to different tradeoffs they make in design and features:
As hardware improved, we also saw trimmed down Linux like ucLinux, MontaVista Linux, and so on. It just went from there with increasing complexity (and reboots :).
http://www.contiki-os.org/
On more serious MCU's, you might see things like VxWorks or QNX:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
As hardware improved, we also saw trimmed down Linux like ucLinux, MontaVista Linux, and so on. It just went from there with increasing complexity (and reboots :).