Yup, during college I even created electrical schematics in MS Paint during one course, nobody believed it was done using it :) Although I must admit creating schematics in CAD software is more sane ;)
Well, he didn't take full advantage of the hardware - he changed significant part of it (raising total final price by 1/3).
Nevertheless I agree - it is very impressing ! :)
Something like 2-3 years ago I've read similar thing with master foo but about git. Does anyone happen to know where I can find it? I've searched for it but failed to find :(
Well, I used systemd as an init system on a device I was working on (based on imx.6) because it turned out systemd was faster than sysVinit. And from my experience it is very popular now oj embedded systems.
I love Lem's books, my father used to read them to me and my brother when we were young (I remember he read us "Tales of Pirx the pilot", now it is name of crater on Charon ! :D). This started my adventure with Sci-Fi books and reading in general.