Re: Embedded Platform

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 06/16/05 

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:51:46 -0000

On 2005-06-16, TECH_NEWS <info@tcdood.com> wrote:

> I just worked with a product called PICOBSD. It is an
> embedded small Linux, that boots on X86 hardware. The app I
> was looking at was "DUMMYNET", made by an Italian profession,
> Luigi Rizzo. This BSD based system boots from a floppy, is
> fully configurable, and can be a basis for a first embedded
> project. You don't even have to format the drive....It will
> boot from the floppy.

Huh? A _BSD_ based _Linux_ system? 

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