Re: Dumb question on embedded Linux - why?

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 10/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:04:55 -0000

On 2005-10-14, Drily Lit Raga <midicad2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Answered most of my questions by scouting the WWW for awhile.
>
> Now I don't know why you would NOT want to use EL.

 1) Lack of resources? [It's pretty hard to run Linux with 40KB of
    RAM and 132KB of ROM.]

 2) It's not real-time?

 3) You've got application code that was written for another
    OS?

 4) You don't want to deal with distributing source code for
    GPL'ed software? 

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