Fernando sent the below message to the Neuros list, and its just another reason why an x86 (with a powerful CPU) continues to make sense for the LINK.  Until the world becomes more standards based, as a manufacturer, we'll continue to need to be flexible to keep our customers from having to deal with these headaches.  That means x86 and having enough space CPU cycles to be able to deal with some inefficiencies in the system.  Its very easy to look at the world and say "great Adobe has flash that works with our specific architecture" and forget about all the little details that frequently prevent a product from "just working" as it should. At a casual glance, the below may seem like an obscure detail, but given a handful of details like this and you find a lot of users having a bad experience. No one will be happier than Neuros to see a complete movement to more efficient embedded architectures, but in the meantime, a conventional x86 gives us the ability to fix those glitches and give users a more hassle-free experience.

From Fernando: 

Microsoft has, once again, used its dominant market position to extend one of its standards implemented by competitors (FAT file system) into a proprietary, patented one, dubbed extended FAT, aka exFAT or FAT64.

The problem is that Win7 uses this format for pen drives (USB Mass Storage), and thus, more and more we'll see thumb drives formatted with exFat. Someone has hacked a read-only driver for Linux here:

And here is the official "microsoft licensed" version, by some small firm which ported it to Linux. Of course, it's commercial, proprietary software, and I bet x86 not ARM...  What are the chances (if any) of seeing this in the OSD?