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Date:      Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:41:27 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Amit Rawat <aamitr4@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "
Message-ID:  <516452C7.7040607@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304091935490.13342@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <CAOhv3dpTM9J9oiLpdw8xOAToXT_tQ3VW4Mv1F%2B8n7xhG%2BJK93w@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304091935490.13342@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On 4/9/13 10:36 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> 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.

Ah, any insight as to why?

-Alfred




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