Hi ppl Hardware resources should not be a reason to stop some one from starting on 'embedded linux' you can simulate all of it on ur standard intel PC. Once you come to a level where you pick out an area in the embedded space where you want to excel like i guess in robotics,handhelds,settop boxes,...(it can go on) u can think of trying out a project on specific hardware.
linux does not fit in all the areas... if u have a device which gives u 1-2 mb of space for ur OS.. linux may not be the best thing there .... i have attended a course in embedded technologies conducted by Seed Infotech in pune... quite disappointing as there was no mention of linux in the entire course.the professors preference seemed to be DOS.. when i checked up on his background he was in the 'controller embedded space' He used to design controllers for boilers ... I am yet to find a course specific to linux or which covers linux (i guess this what trevor was asking and im back to the same question)
if any one wants to try out creating a mp3player on a floppy or something like that www.linuxdevices.com is the best place you will find many projects which you can download and postmortem
what im planning to try next is something like mozilla-embedded ...it has to fit into 5mb uncompressed :) i know that sounds crazy but my other option will be 'adding java support to dillo' i have to still settle on which is the lesser evil :) Trevor and me did try something like this long time back :) we settled on creating a work around with dillo opening an applet viewer to give java support i shd get time to work on this next month
regards, Poornima Marattil