Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:29:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> To: Juha-Matti Liukkonen <jml@cubical.fi> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CF cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011170724590.6114-100000@lepton.subatomix.com> In-Reply-To: <3A144CF0.56AF596C@cubical.fi>
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Sorry guys, I've already got a TinyBSD. I haven't been able to work on it much since two other CISCOR projects have been in more need of work for the last several months. I do, however, expect a generally usable release before the end of the year. On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Juha-Matti Liukkonen wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > I have a partial port written. I'll likely just finish that. But I > > need a good name. I thought of calling it FBSD, which is just a > > reduced FreeBSD, but that would be confusing. uFBSD also comes to > > mind :-). > > We call ours simply "eBSD" -- originally a working term for "embedded > BSD", but works as a word play for "reduced FreeBSD" too... :-) > > Our build contains certain product specific modifications to the core > FreeBSD code, which might make the eBSD tag somewhat trademark-ish > though. I think we could start calling our build "Cubical eBSD" if eBSD > became the official moniker, and we moved to use the eBSD build > mechanism. (hm, that would compress to "CeBSD", as in the WinCE ilk? not > bad.) > > Other ideas: how about "uBSD" (think uber)? "MiniBSD"? "TinyBSD"? > "CompactBSD" (think CompactPCI)? =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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