Hello Chris, Yes, Ubuntu and most others will load up whatever you want on boot, but that is really not the point. The problem with nearly ANY release out there is that there is a TON of bloat. Take just the window manager alone, most of them use OpenGL to do fancy transitions, some window managers have more than 200,000 lines of code! There are dozens of things that Ubuntu loads that are not desirable in a system that must be reliable. The idea here is lean and mean. The more things that are loaded or running, the better the chances that something will crash or otherwise go wrong. The distro that I am working with is just under 21 MB total. The entire thing including Linuxcnc fits in the initrd. That and the Linux kernel fit onto the 32 MB flash on my ARM board, and it boots to Gmoccapy in less than 10 seconds. -Neil-
> > I'm pretty sure you can have ubuntu load a program on startup, so > > besides seeing Ububtu or debian start screen you could have your > > screen start up directly. > > > > Chris M > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
