[ale] Aww... This is sad...
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Nov 13 15:39:09 EST 2005
Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:24 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>
>>Well, semantically (is that a word?) speaking, he did say Linux
>>distribution, thus he is referring to a complete distro, not just the
>>kernel.
>
> What I read from his statement was that one reason to not use Linux on
> the router was that the distributions are too big. In the embedded
> arena we don't use distributions on our devices. We use distributions
> on our development desktops but not on the target devices.
I agree with you completely. If you really want to run on an embedded
device, you should either grow your own, or start with a distro that is
designed for such a task.
--
Until later, Geoffrey
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