From owner-freebsd-small Sun Feb 3 4:45:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ycn.com (mail.ycn.com [212.88.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB3237B402 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 04:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws01 (212-88-187-192.ADSL.ycn.com [212.88.187.192]) by mail.ycn.com (8.11.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id g13CjxB05701 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:46:01 +0100 From: "Richard Kaestner" To: Subject: picoBSD: newbies question Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:57:52 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please don't beat for a novice' question ;=) As I understand from documentation, PicoBSD is - based on "a quite old version" of FreeBSD ... - has been merged to the "standard" FreeBSD sources and basically _is_ BSD - should run quite well on a 486/33Mhz, 16 - 32 MB (not regarding application specific issues) - "hard" real-time is not really a domain of *BSD - I shold be able to build an embedded system, using the source tree (after getting deeper into documentation ;=) ) - and finally, develop application on a FreeBSD system, create a package and install it togehter with picoBSD in an embedded system Could anyone please correct my above statements (which are actually questions!), and give me pointers to recommended readings (besides the files supplied in /usr/src/release/picobsd ) After working already for some time on industrial control systems, I would like to make life easier, using a prooven, stable kernel (which since late last year, I think to know, BSD is). Thanks for your help! -- ciao - Richard "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" Richard Kästner Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden mailto:richard.kaestner@ycn.com Austria To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message