[ale] Aww... This is sad...

[Christopher Fowler]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:30 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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 will add that the 2.6 kernel has become rather large.  A basic compile
is well over 1meg and usually can not fit on a floppy disk.  One reason
I still use 2.4.  Also I don't want to go through the pain of switching
kernels.