How Linux programmers changed the world

The story of how Linux grew to become a world-class embedded operating system is a fascinating tail of individual endeavour and collective cooperation. See the slides and accompanying paper from Chirs Simmonds' presentation at Embedded World 2016 for the full monty

Slides: http://2net.co.uk/slides/ew2016-embedded-linux-timeline-slides.pdf
Paper: http://2net.co.uk/slides/ew2016-embedded-linux-timeline-paper.pdf