>ISTR that PHK has been running NTPD on Soekris single board computers >with the program and O/S (if any) in PROM. When you don't have a file >system or much in the way of hardware and you run a single application, >you don't NEED much of an O/S.
Several OS-es (and/or distributions) can be packaged to run without much of a file system. The basic idea is to run out of RAM. Installing over a network is a common example. That doesn't get you a super light-weight system. It gets you a familiar heavy-weight system that's been trimmed down a whole lot. It's small realative to the typical bloated setup. It's bloated relative to what you need to just keep accurate time. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
