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Electronics Weekly: "Embedded Linux is rapidly encroaching upon application spaces once considered the exclusive domain of embedded kernels such as VxWorks, pSOS and in-house platforms.

Industry analysts show embedded Linux and open source garnering up to one-third of 32 and 64-bit designs..."

Some things still wonder me, after 10+ years of web-development. Todays wonder is here:

RFC2821 (SMTP) tells: The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is 1000 characters.

In real world, most MTAs default to 990 characters per-line, which means, that if you will try to dump longer line on them, they would split it by putting “!\n” after 990-th byte.

This is mostly harmless for plain-text, but can easily break html.