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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