From owner-freebsd-small Wed Mar 14 17:19:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFF737B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:19:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09475; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:19:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200103150119.SAA09475@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: functional differences between variants In-Reply-To: <0c1801c0ace1$30e7f1a0$817e03cb@apana.org.au> from Doug Young at "Mar 15, 1 09:47:52 am" To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au (Doug Young) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:19:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Doug Young wrote: > Also, is there a reason why picoBSD development still appears to be > concentrated on older versions of FreeBSD instead of something in the > 4.x line ?? The kernel in the 4.x line is considerably larger than 2.2.x or 3.5.x, and has some features (like improved SMP support) that is of little use for Pico systems. When you're trying to smoosh stuff down to fit on a floppy, every little bit (byte?) counts. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message