Embedded LINUX

MAOJC

MAOJC

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OK how may of you guys have looked at embedded distros?

I have checked out busybox. http://www.busybox.net/ Nice support for modules, smb, and other goodies.

Any others that you might recomend?
 
when you say embedded do you mean eCos embedded (for microprocessors) or do you mean small distribution?

I have used busybox and tinylogin quite a bit. what sort of things do you want to know?
 
i used peewee a lot when i was creating the thin-client box on the 16 meg flash card. at least to begin with. in the end i built my own distribution (4.7meg in the end which ran on 16meg ram).

problem with peewee (my problem that was due to only having 16meg of ram), as i have mentioned before it is based on using ramdisk.
 
http://www.mvista.com
is a useful place to look at embedded linux devices. they supprt x86, ppc, strongarm, xscale, mips, sh and arm plus other ucpus.

http://embedded.centurysoftware.com has very good bits too.

Another idea is to look at current projects such as tuxscreen http://tuxscreen.net

http://www.handhelds.org is good for general info on smaller binary substitutions.

trolltech do Qt embedded but I prefer Kdrive X server on the linux framebuffer with a small window manager on top.

hp.com development team (was compaq) has many websites showing linux devices.

http://www.uclinux.org shows what can be put on a simm size package. very cute indeed.

I also recommend the newsgroup comp.os.linux.embedded as a great source of info on ppc evaluation boards

Hope this helps.
 
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