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Linux on non-PCs/Laptops
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A ton of digital signage (think fast food restaurant menus) run Linux as well.
Most home routers do as well.
Don't most routers run some form of BSD?
Never heard of a commercial home router running a BSD derivative, but I'm sure it's possible. Almost all of them have a GPL li censée disclosure so....
Wouldn't a home router with Windows cost way more because of the licence?
Probably would also need like ten times the amount of ram and disk space. These things usually run on 64/128Mb of RAM and anywhere from 8 to 32Mb of flash.
I think those numbers might be on the low side. Like, not by heaps though. My Asus RT-AC86U has 512MB of RAM and 256MB of flash. It's not exactly new either, I'd imagine an AX router would need more.
Yeah for wifi ax/6 they are. But they are perfectly normal for AC. N even ran on stuff like 4mb of flash and 32mb of ram.
Huh, I guess that's why they run merlin runs so well on them.
More, but not way more - they would be licensing window IoT, not a full blown OS, and they wouldn't be paying OTC retail rates for it.