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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 00:37:00 -0800
Subject: Re: picoBSD: newbies question
From: "gerry link" <gne5@onebox.com>
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I would have to agree, there are mighty slim pickings on the picobsd
website itself.  Have a certain DSS project I'd love to get running on
a small pc-appliance, thought Pico would be perfect. 
   I don't know, might be easy for someone used to *nix, maybe I'll just
work at Free.

Not sure, but is Pico even being really used/worked on any more?  Most
of the docs and stuff all date back to 1998 or so.  

Basic question I guess I have is, should I actually invest time into
Pico, or simply go with Free/Open?

cio, 
g


---- "Richard Kaestner" <richard.kaestner@ycn.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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