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> happy that FreeBSD is among the selected organization.
>
> I am a third year student interested to work in the field of embedded
> system. I applied last year and the title of my project was " Kernel Size
why only in embedded system. smaller programs are always good :)

And yes FreeBSD kernel is huge. doesn't really matter with 1GB or more 
RAM but yes - it is huge even relative to linux.