alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:16:38 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ alt on Thursday 17 January 2008 00:56 : \____
>>
>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:29:37 +0000, [H]omer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that alt spake thusly:
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:05:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote stuff...
>>>>> but
>>>>
>>>>> I'm adding something SOT.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I found out that my Sirius Sportster 4 radio is running eCos... yes,
>>>>> that's the OSS RTOS located at http://ecos.sourceware.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> Not shabby at all.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently this was originally a Red Hat project, subsequently donated
>>>> to the community:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2004/press_eCosFSF.html
>>>>
>>>> Not Linux though.
>>>>
>>>> Here's another interesting non-Linux GPL licensed OS:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.menuetos.net
>>>
>>> As much as I love linux, it's not the right tool all the time. I really
>>> don't see why I would use Linux on an embedded device. I'm not talking
>>> smartphones and the like, but on very specialized systems - like my
>>> Sirius radio - which don't have or need a lot of memory or CPU.
>>>
>>> just my 2 (canadian) cents.
>>
>> There is at least one recent survey which proved closed embedded systems
>> get replaces by open ones.
>
> Sometimes it goes the other way. Linksys moved their WRT54G product from
> Linux to Wind River (I think) after they were forced to release the GPL'd
> software. But I personally believe that has more to do with the closed
> nature of the Cisco IOS ecosystem and with Cisco's purchase of Linksys
> they'd rather have their stuff closed off.
The wrt54gl version has remained available in spite of the production
of a vxworks version with 1/2 the ram. The white russian project will
install on either version, however, so the argument that linux could not
run with a smaller ram footprint was erroneous - you might not recall,
but that was the claim of several of our local shilcosystem.
Since then, a new version, the wrt54gs has been launched which runs linux,
and is expanded in some respects, including a usb port for external
storage and some other features which presently escape me.
Also in that time, Wind River made the decision to move to Linux
themselves.
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