Summary
All we have reviewed thus far has been leading up to this moment. In the past four chapters, we have covered a wealth of factors that impact design criteria, wrapping all that up in this chapter with the Linux operating system that is to be the foundation of your applications within your solutions.
The lessons that you have learned from this chapter are complex. There are many great Linux distributions and companies out there. Each of their distributions or, in some cases, their custom spins, which are variants of their distributions, target specific hardware platforms or end-user use cases. These use cases can range from custom graphical interfaces to industrial control management, from artificial intelligence-driven analytics to advanced security policy enforcement.
We have covered a lot in this chapter, so let’s summarize some of the points you need to remember. Your hardware selection will totally empower or limit you in terms of the Linux distributions you...
