Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:17:59 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010207081758.B16642@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20010207080056.16896.qmail@web5102.mail.yahoo.com>; from vlaero@yahoo.com.au on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:00:56PM %2B1100 References: <20010207080056.16896.qmail@web5102.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:00:56PM +1100, Paul Jansen scribbled: | Will PicoBSD live again? | | slashdot story: | | http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/06/1916200.shtml You want to buy this for your old 486? | Anyone tried these things yet? | I'd be keen to get an up-to-date version of Pico | running on a floppy. In my very very humble opinion, the PicoBSD approach was somewhat indirectional. Few intelligent people would want to run an embedded system with a floppy as storage media. Picture yourself inserting IOS system floppy into a Cisco 7000 router everytime someone DoS's your network. :) The point is that modern (or old) embedded systems have flash or other forms of non-volatile storage rather than using floppies. And the 1.44mb limit is somewhat too small. PicoBSD ends up being a boot and system mechanism for old PC's laying around. And that makes it unappealling to many people who wish to find a better method for their commercial/industrial system. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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