What is Ampro Embedded Linux?
Derived from Ubuntu® packages, Ampro Embedded Linux is a free, open-source, reduced-footprint Linux® operating system enhanced with device-oriented features such as its default touch-enabled Hildon graphical user interface, plus other selected technologies from the Ubuntu Mobile & Embedded (UME) project. Ampro Embedded Linux targets OEMs designing the company’s highly-reliable single-board computers (SBCs), computer-on-modules (COMs), and system-level products into a wide range of applications in industries such as medical, defense, industrial control, retail point-of-sales/service, avionics, and wired/wireless communications. With this announcement, Ampro becomes the embedded industry’s first board-level embedded computer manufacturer to support its full product line with an embedded Linux OS derived from Ubuntu, today’s most popular form of Linux. The Ampro’s reduced-footprint embedded Linux distribution currently includes some 700 packages and offers three kernel options: the standa
