Re: Windows XP optimization tricks

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:30:35 +0000, Grinder wrote:

Arno Wagner wrote:
And I was not even talking about embedded Linux. Many of these
small devices run a full Linux kernel.

I'm not trying to jump into your on-going dispute/debate, but I'm
curious as to what you mean by the statement above.

Isn't "embedded Linux" a "full Linux kernel" running on a dedicated
device? I thought that the footprint of such systems were reduced by
paring away libraries, not the most basic part of the OS--the kernel.

See this, possibly non-authoritative, remark from wikipedia:

| Embedded Linux systems combine the Linux kernel with a
| small set of free software utilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Linux

On an embedded device, you would compile your kernel with only the needed
hardware configured. On a normal distro, the kernel is configured to enable
as much hardware as possible, to serve a variety of users. Usually with
modules that any one computer may never need. So, in my understanding, a
full linux kernel is used for embedded, but only as full as needed to work
on that type of device.

Not at all. My kernel on my PC has only the needed drivers compiled
in, as I roll my own. That does not make it an embedded system.

Arno
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