This talk recently of other development platforms (Hard Hat and
BlueCat) made me think about this.
The original was Debian, as that was what was used, and it supported
glibc 2.0 in Slink. It later became clear (to me anyway) that any
glibc-2.0 based Linux should do, such as Red Hat 5.2 or Linux Mandrake
5.3.
I've taken a look at some of these, and wonder what every one else
thinks:
* Hard Hat - seems like its made for true embedded applications, and
the Professional version isn't GPL and isn't available for download.
Embedded to me means: using some CPU no one's ever heard of, and
putting the CPU and software into a device no one will ever see.
* BlueCat - this is like Hard Hat in that it is for True Embedded
Development... why develop for an i586 when you've get Joe's CPU
xx87AA0-series 7 available?
Maybe I just don't "get it" with this embedded stuff - I thought we
were developing for mass produced Intel-compatible processors ....but
anyway - more:
* Gentoo - this seems like a VERY appealing environment. I will
probably see if I can install it sooner or later. The idea of not
having GNOME support in binaries when you don't use GNOME is appealing
- similar things could be said about NIS and about IP v6.
* Peewee Linux - this also seems appealing, though it seems more
geared towards making that bootable floppy disk distro than what I
thought it was originally (a bootable mini CDROM distro).
* Peanut - this is another distro that I will probably install or try
out at some time. It IS a small CDROM-based distro.
Thoughts?
PS: Maybe Charles wants to put Dachstein into a robot? :-) How about
a wireless router in a robot, doing network routing during competition
(hee, hee, hee, hee....) "Hey the network went down." "Yeah, I know
- Charles' robot just got axed by that turtle thing from Monona,
Wisc." :-) :-)
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