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BSD in Embedded Systems

Posted by michael on from the daemons-everywhere dept.

LiquidPC writes: "According to an article by BSDtoday.com: Evans Data Corp., a market research company focused on the software development community, announced in their Embedded Systems Developer Survey that, by 2002, BSD will the 5th most popular embedded OS. This year, however, BSD did not even appear on the chart."

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  1. Evans has a history....of confusion! by mr · · Score: 2

    Evans Data Corporation, a market research company focused on the software development community, is the one that called FreeBSD "A linux distro"
    http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_ id=1748
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/30/082320 5&mode=thread

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  2. Roll your own embedded BSD..... by jsimon12 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.embsd.org/
    http://www.soekris.com/

  3. are they sure? by zentex · · Score: 1

    I could have sworn that NetBSD had cornered the market on toasters :-)

    (for those that dont get the dead tree version of Daemon News, Wasabi systems has full page ad in almost every edition implying NetBSD will soon power even your toaster)

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    1. Re:are they sure? by Ded+Bob · · Score: 1

      I have been noticing that my toast has been coming out extra crispy with an especially black little fork burnt into it. Hmmm, I better keep an eye on it. :)