There are few reasons :
-It's free (compare to windows)
-it's easy to use (the desktop is more user friendly)
-It's quite popular
-You can download or create your own toolchain of cross-compilation quite easily.
-The OS of your embedded system is often a linux/debian/ubuntu
Another distribution of Linux might be used (RedHat, Fedora, ...) but Ubuntu is used.
This is because in linux u can play with the communication configuration easily for the serial communication or ethernet while interacting with your embedded hardware. The code written in linux could be easily compiled and run using a terminal. A stable kernel; the ability to read, modify and redistribute the source code.One of the major advantages of Linux is the plenty of open source applications like web servers, ftp, telnet, ntp, ssl, sql, email, etc.
Misters Franck and Vasuki , I thank U 4 answers , But I ask about y the developers use Ubuntu more than other Linux Distributions ??? Y Ubuntu is preferred
for me, i have been using fedora linux, i think it maybe depend on the usage preference among developer. If they feel they are much familiar to ubuntu and that's it, Fedora also supportive for embedded platform
may refer to Sphinx as they discussed a lot of speech processing that using linux platform if i'm not mistaken. for embedded either may use the eclipse ide in linux platform or windows based. for eg:speech acoustic model develop in linux, then the model transfer to eclipse ide in terms of enhance/integrated with any other platform
Embedded system here, which i focus on mobile platform.
I claim they don't. While unix-like OSs are pretty common in embedded systems (few of the reasons for that have been already mentioned), Ubuntu is rather used in systems with "a kind of" desktop. IMHO, even Debian (where Ubuntu is derived from) is more used in embedded systems due to its wide support of architectures.
My students liked it and introduced me to it - I was using mostly Centos and Fedora before. I don't think the exact distribution matters too much, but once you get to know one, it's just a matter of convenience and leveraging what you've already learned. Overall, Ubuntu does make a nice cross-development host, either native install or installed with Oracle's Virtual Box on a Windows or Macintosh host.
I always believe that you can compile easily you have tons of free libraries, which you either extend or use in order to do research or develop industrial applications. On the other hand if you consider industrial companies they prefer to use Windows, since they want to sell their products to the interested community. I believe that generally a gnome kernel has a lot of potentials and there are systems like Pear 0S, which combine the well designed GUI of Mac OS with the abilities of Ubuntu and are much less heavier.. Finally don't forget that we are talking about embedded systems, which have to be developed in low-cost platforms and drivers are mainly developed for Linux.. Imagine now you have a project on Eclipse you generate Makefiles then you do make or make install and you have your binary. How more convenient than that?
Thank U 4 caring .
Mr. Peter Breuer , I am very happy 2 C U share us . I mean that most of developers ( as I C in the conferences and in the youtube for Mintor, Yocto and UDOO ) that aim to build a custom Linux 4 emb. sys. use Ubuntu and install on it the software that help to built the custom Linux . thanx 4 all
maybe as u said "because you think so" but I thought that based on the tutorial videos for built custom linux and always the video owner recommends to use Ubuntu. I think U hate ubuntu .. ^__^ .. maybe because the Unity interface. say it ...
thank you , I had read it . not at wiki only but, the Embedded linux foundation also , I joined it and I receive most of the new tutorials about that. thanx a lot
I never said that Ubuntu is an Embedded Sys. or most developers use ubuntu as an Embedded sys. but, I said that most developers use Ubuntu to install software and tools that make a custom Linux for Embedded sys. . this software like yocto, PTXdist and OpenWRT . who recommend to use Ubuntu not a little researcher but they are masters like Davied Stourt from yocto and Scott Garman from Intel.
thanx for advising
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