Couldn't you make it just as simple with Linux? You are just doing more.
t. Someone with a dozen Apache servers that I only touch when I hit end of life.
t. Someone with a dozen Apache servers that I only touch when I hit end of life.
What matters here is how dynamic and tightly coupled are the os components. On an embedded system, most of the system and their dependencies are monolithic, without any live updates. The system tends to behave almost deterministically after every reboot.