Once it was the desktop, now <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/zemlin/">mobile phones and embedded devices</A> represent the future of Linux, according to open source fans.
Linux has 18 per cent of the embedded market, beating Windows on 16 per cent. The opportunity is in mopping up the 43.7 per cent of the embedded market currently using proprietary operating systems.