Re: Dumb question on embedded Linux - why?

From: Drily Lit Raga (midicad2001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/15/05

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    Date: 14 Oct 2005 17:35:17 -0700

    Grant Edwards wrote:
    > 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.]

    Seems like 2 MB ROM and 16 MB RAM practical minimum for EL from what
    I've read?

    > 2) It's not real-time?

    It's not a pre-emptive multitasker? Or is there some other specific
    aspect of it that prevents it from being RT (trying to learn all this)?

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

    OK.

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

    Will look into what this means.

    Thanks,

    DLR

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