From owner-freebsd-small Thu May 30 8: 6:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7578237B403 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 08:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4UF5vk79262; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:05:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020530155213.00c7aa30@gid.co.uk> X-Sender: rbmail@gid.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:05:53 +0100 To: graham.wright@raleigh.hcl.com From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Pro's and Con's of FreeBSD vs Linux for embedded systems? Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Hi, We've got routers running custom PicoBSD at various points arounnd the globe. We're also using various custom Pico-based diskless configs for assorted unusual tasks. The various Linux options are not so compact, and being mainly BSD-based we didn't see any advantage in going up the learning curve. The standard Pico configs probably aren't much use except as examples. Bottom line: Pico is _very_ compact (I continue to be amazed just how much you can get on a single floppy, although we mostly use CF or PXEboot) and customisable but you have to put the work in. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message