On Wednesday 14 March 2007 07:46 pm, Roland Mainz wrote: > Depends on what "footprint" means.
Sure, but this is becoming less important on the average embedded device, as the storage and memory on small devices has grown substantially over the past few years. It's all a tradeoff of what you want, functionality vs. size. I haven't been involved in the embedded space for a few years, but think it's facinating. I have a streaming radio that I have root to, and that's pretty cool to boot my radio and get a root prompt inside of it.;-) It only has a PPC 823 (no float), but it does run, and busybox offers quite a bit of functionality for a root user, it's nice.;-) You can do cool stuff...mount nfs drives on servers, and this allows you to have unlimited amounts of sources that will run on the radio after boot. No, I don't do that much...but the point is that it's powerful. I can use a mysql client to access a mysql database anywhere on the net from my radio. No matter how big, I can boot and nfs mount. I'm not clear on the value to Solaris/OpenSolaris. Clearly there's value in having the software, but it seems we have other priorities for OpenSolaris that I would classify before a project like that...like KDE for instance! I'm still running the older CCD KDE (3.1.1) on some machines, Stefan's build of 3.3.1 on another, and I would like to get something more current as there has been a lot of changes in some of the apps I use, such as KMail. Hopefully you saw my message about that. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
