Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:19:41 -0500 From: "Troy Thoele" <thoele@txcyber.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pro's and Con's of FreeBSD vs Linux for embedded systems? Message-ID: <200205301419.g4UEJfS21335@portal.txcyber.com> In-Reply-To: <> References: <>
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Here is my 2 cents. I looked at PicoBSD when it first came out, with the prebuilt single floppies and the first Pico tools. I now run a multitude of FreeBSD 4.5 servers, but I've just about given up with Pico development. It looks like Pico isn't staying current with the mainstream FreeBSD development. This is unfortunate, as some of us (me) aren't too good with programming, and if something is broken, I generally need outside help to fix it. I've been experimenting with some embedded Linux platforms, and they are alot more user friendly in my opinion, but lack the "lean and mean" of Pico. Regards, Troy On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:59:25 -0400, Graham Wright <graham.wright@raleigh.hcl.com> wrote : > Please excuse the obvious newbie question here but I'm trying to understand > what the pro's and con's are of using FreeBSD vs Linux in an embedded > appliance scenario. The marketing people seem to feel that Linux should be > the OS of choice since there is a higher level of consumer acceptance, > while the technical staff feels that FreeBSD is preferable due to it's > superior TCP/IP stack. > > Of course, I haven't been able to find any technical comparisons between > the two so I thought I'd ask the experts :-) > > Thanks, > Graham > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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