>Embedded devices don't need processes, security, >kernel/user paradigm, a file system, device >nodes, yadda yadda yadda. For instance, running
Hrm. Elevator controllers again? Perhaps embeded devices do not need such things, and the again perhaps they do. I'm still puzzled as to why toasters need chips, for example. But if they moderate the tempuature providing even toast, then I can at least see why you might want them to have chips.
Basicaly, what I'm trying to say is that the usefulness would be dependant upon the device's intended use. But I could at least think that development might be easier for an embeded Linux. Then again, purrhaps not.
> Even Microsoft didn't reuse code
I'm rather wary of using Microsoft as a positive example, since it's hard to tell when they do things for a technical gain or a market gain.
> Linux is not an embedded OS, even if you try to add hard real time threads to it.
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>kernel/user paradigm, a file system, device
>nodes, yadda yadda yadda. For instance, running
Hrm. Elevator controllers again? Perhaps embeded devices do not need such things, and the again perhaps they do. I'm still puzzled as to why toasters need chips, for example. But if they moderate the tempuature providing even toast, then I can at least see why you might want them to have chips.
Basicaly, what I'm trying to say is that the usefulness would be dependant upon the device's intended use. But I could at least think that development might be easier for an embeded Linux. Then again, purrhaps not.
> Even Microsoft didn't reuse code
I'm rather wary of using Microsoft as a positive example, since it's hard to tell when they do things for a technical gain or a market gain.
> Linux is not an embedded OS, even if you try to add hard real time threads to it.
It can't hurt to try and see, can it?
Bogus. The government is not your mother here to make every little problem in the world dissapear.
Let's put it this way: Did you oppose both CDA attempts? If so, why? The government was just trying to protect you from a problem it foresaw...