The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) entered a new phase of its standardization activity today, as it launched three key new initiatives aimed at developing specifications covering user interfaces, real-time performance, and power management for embedded Linux based systems and devices.
ELC to Standardize User Interface, Real-Time, Power Management
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How much would this standard affect developers writing apps accross Linux desktop systems and Linux embedded systems?
-magg
$20 says that during this whole specification process, they pull a TrollTech and completely ignore all the human factors implications for mobile devices in their API designs, resulting in yet even more linux PDA’s that no one wants to use.