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Linux Essentials - Second Edition
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Computers fill many roles in the world, and as computers have become ever more common and less expensive, those roles have multiplied. Linux can serve as the OS for most of these roles, each of which draws on its own subset of support utilities. Some of these roles also require tweaking the kernel itself. We briefly describe three of these roles: embedded computers, desktop and laptop computers, and server computers.

As noted in Chapter 1, embedded computers are specialized devices that fulfill a specific purpose. Examples include the following:
Mobile Phones Modern mobile phones use computers with OSs that range from simple to complex. Linux powers some of these mobile phones, usually in the form of the Android OS.
E-book Readers These devices, like mobile phones, are specialized computers and so use an OS to power them. For many current e-book readers, that...
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