On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Charles Steinkuehler charles@steinkuehler.net wrote:
Note that these numbers are not totally (or perhaps even remotely) accurate...folks using bsd are probably doing so because they don't want to deal with the licensing issues of linux (ie: kind of why Microsoft pilfered the BSD network stack, *NOT* the linux one...plus at the time the BSD stack still kicked linux's butt in networking :), so there's likely a fair amount of embedded BSD work going on that never sees the light of day.
A lot of BSD work happens on the BSD mailing lists. NetBSD has quite a few embedded platforms in their support lists. Speaking of embedded and portable systems, my buddy has started running JLime Linux on an HP palmtop to do WarDriving as a modernized upgrade from WinCE. Now is as good a time as any to link to our UNIX/tech/security/programming blog: http://www.h-i-r.net/2008/04/jlime-linux-wifi-scanning-new-userland.html If anyone was around "the scene" much back in the day you may have heard of HiR and our series of e-zines in the late-90s... I ll try not to date myself much more toady, what with setting up a dial-up router and writing for an e-zine a decade ago and all. Maybe I shouldn't mention the Amigas in the basement. ;)
Jon.