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Wind River Announces It Likes Linux After All
onecrazyfoo writes "Wind River is going to start supporting Linux in the embedded market. Pretty big news from the largest company in the embedded tools market. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that they have been very anti-Linux and outspoken about it in the past. You can read more about their announcement at LinuxDevices.com." I'm guessing this has come about because of recent changes in the company.
Ha. Just wait till SCO wins. Then you can eat your damn GPL. This company just decided to go bankrupt. I guess QNX will be getting a lot more business.
The 3Com rep laughed at me when I asked if I could put Linux on the NBX100. Maybe now someone can fix that one user per phone 'bug'.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
I just deleted redhat off my system and I am installing FreeBSD again as I type this. All I wanted to do was test the new 2.6 kernel but non of the modules worked. When I upgraded modutils it still would not work and now wont boot 2.4. My guess is RedHat put some of the config files in the wrong place.
Anyway my point is Linux haas serious drawbacks and in my opinion is going downhill in quality from over-complexity and alot of amaturish programs that are crap like you mentioned. Yes some like Apache and Samba rock but weaknesses exist.
I believe WindRiver sells a very high quality OS that I can not think of the name for that is reliable and very tiny.
. Windows sucks in alot of area's and I deleted off my system but Unix is not the answer for everything either. Unix and particularly BSD was made by hackers for hackers. Everything is a file concept is also nice for system administrator since you can move mountains with scripts. However it matters what you do with it. I am pissed that all the software is only for Windows and that Microsoft killed all competition. I would like several different types of pc's running different OS's. For the ignorant IT managers who claim integration= savings provide no proof. Many have become %100 MCSE NT shops and end up increasing money on software support and integration costs. Schools particularly who used to run Novel and Macintosh. I only use FreeBSD because I like to hack and develop software. I hate being tied in to a windows gui but that is me.
I wish the fanatics would just grow up sometime. A gui without X or new libraries for Java to compete agaisnt .net would be a start.
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