From owner-freebsd-small Fri Nov 17 5:22:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from lepton.subatomix.com (okc-65-26-238-193.mmcable.com [65.26.238.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2854F37B4CF for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:22:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jss@localhost) by lepton.subatomix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA06130; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:29:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:29:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: Juha-Matti Liukkonen Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CF cards In-Reply-To: <3A144CF0.56AF596C@cubical.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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