Don’t mix up IoT devices that are running the single app that does one thing, and user devices, where there’s a zoo of applications written by a third party. It’s not that free software such as embedded linux are incapable of being low-power, no, as the op correctly pointed it’s about managing and limiting what user space applications can do.
Don’t mix up IoT devices that are running the single app that does one thing, and user devices, where there’s a zoo of applications written by a third party. It’s not that free software such as embedded linux are incapable of being low-power, no, as the op correctly pointed it’s about managing and limiting what user space applications can do.