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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by pinkyand on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:18PM (#8428877)
Linux also means higher hardware costs and bigger size and worse peripheral selection. Those are critical parameters in this market.
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by fragmede on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @05:23PM (#8429544)
> higher hardware costs

Yes.

> bigger size

If you're comparing something like a bare ATTiny to a Raspberry Pi, sure, but the size difference between a standard Arduino and the Pi isn't great.

> worse peripheral selection

Um, compared to what?

mbed, a new operating system, will have to have drivers written for everything it supports - which is likely much shorter list than for Linux.

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