From owner-freebsd-small Wed Sep 16 04:25:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25909 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:25:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gentle.hislora.com.au ([203.35.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25904 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lstoll@shoalhaven.net.au) Received: from shoalhaven.net.au (lstoll@port06.shoalhaven.com [203.35.218.86]) by gentle.hislora.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03943 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:32:32 +1000 Message-ID: <35FF9FCA.568F560@shoalhaven.net.au> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:23:55 +1000 From: Lincoln Stoll X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As for the original question: I'd say that both projects are pretty young, > and I think you should choose what suits you best :-)). I don't know the > folks behind the Linux project, but I'll keep trying to develop PicoBSD, > so that it's easy to use in embedded products, and at the same time it's > very close to the normal FreeBSD environment (unlike the ELKS project). The ELKS project is no longer really concerned with making Linux embedded. It's main goal is to create a small and efficient version of Linux to run on processors before the Intel i386. Depending on what you want to do with and embedded OS, you can put Linux in a small amount of space, with some examples being HAL(the url escapes me), which is a single disk version of Linux designed for rescuing systems, although it is adaptable, to the Linux Router Project (http://www.linux-router.org) which is designed for using Linux as a, well, router :) Linc. (lstoll@shoalhaven.net.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message