Linux is one of the great stories of the tech world, started in a Finnish dorm room and now it runs on 80 percent of public servers and 100 percent of supercomputers. But what percentage of embedded devices?

The answer is, “a growing percentage”. For the last 20 years, developers have been introduced to electronics engineering by platforms like Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone that run different distributions of the Linux operating system. Of course, most of us wouldn’t classify Raspbian or Debian as “embedded Linux”, but they’re a gateway to the likes of Yocto, Buildroot, and other distributions built for small size and determinism.

So, how did you get into embedded Linux? Linux veteran Iain Menzies-Runciman has worked on everything from Linux supercomputers to embedded Linux on constrained devices over the past couple decades and has had his share of adventures.

Join him for this week’s Officer Hours where we’ll learn and share adventures in Embedded Linux that will up your dev game.