I understand that the main difference between desktop and embedded linux is the absence of a MMU in the latter.Theoritcally speaking , can i run a desktop environment (say KDE) and desktop applications on my embedded platoform, provided it has enough memory and a suitable display ?
Suppose i have an application built on wxWidgets and python.Can i simply cross compile the app and make it run on the target?Are there 'light weight' GUI environments for embedded systems that allow this ?
Thanks.
Nonsense. Embedded devices quite often have MMUs on the processors they use.
There are heavy-weight GUI environments for embedded systems that allow it.
Todays embedded systems are 10 times as powerful as the desktop PC/workstation that I was using 10 years ago.
Phil
The Python runtime can be made working with non-MMU systems and it does not take that much resources.
There are special GUI systems for embedded projects (e.g. "NANO-GUI")
-Michael
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