Re: [Celinux-dev] lightweight applications

2012-10-11 Thread Tim Bird
On 10/11/2012 06:00 AM, LM wrote:> This sounded like a really useful idea: > http://elinux.org/Busybox_replacement_project > Would be curious as to the status of this project. I've been looking > at (and testing out) various BSD and/or MIT style licensed > implementations for some of these types o

[Celinux-dev] [Q] Default SLAB allocator

2012-10-11 Thread Ezequiel Garcia
Hello, While I've always thought SLUB was the default and recommended allocator, I'm surprise to find that it's not always the case: $ find arch/*/configs -name "*defconfig" | wc -l 452 $ grep -r "SLOB=y" arch/*/configs/ | wc -l 11 $ grep -r "SLAB=y" arch/*/configs/ | wc -l 245 This shows that

[Celinux-dev] lightweight applications

2012-10-11 Thread LM
I'm not working on embedded systems, but I do have an interest in the software that works on embedded systems. I've been investigating lightweight, well-designed applications that would work well on low-resource or older computers. While I've been searching for Open Source applications that fit t