Re:How many forks must a Linux walk down...? (Score 1)

I don't see this as a fork like the desktop distributions. For embedded Linux, we only have Hardhat Linux and Embedix now as competitors. That's not a lot of choices, but it's probably enough. Keep in mind that these products are aimed at a market where a desktop (install to a hard disk) type distribution is completely inadequate. Developers of embedded Linux applications require a system where the tools are not self-hosted since their targets probably can't suport self-hosting. Step back and consider that this makes the "distribution" method look a lot different now. Lineo and Hard Hat need to provide a product where developers can sit on a workstation Linux and build a target Linux system from a set of packaged building blocks. It's a completely different problem to solve that a typical distribution is designed for.