Garrett D'Amore wrote:
I've got a fair bit of experience with embedded UNIX now, and I can tell you that (practically) nobody is serious about using Solaris in an embedded context because it is just too huge. Assumptions about practically unlimited amounts of storage and core memory are, IMO, at the root of this.
Do people seriously use the default RedHat installer to build embedded systems based on Linux ? I suspect nobody does that.
So why would one be expected to use the default Solaris installer and be constrained by what it things is a minimal install if one is building an embedded system based on OpenSolaris.
One of the things I really really hope appears soon for OpenSolaris is a tiny embedded distro, say a small router or something. Now I know a lot of those systems often run on processors OpenSolaris doesn't yet have sufficient support for but an experiment could be done with something like a VIA C7 based system. An ultra stripped down system designed to do one task. That would IMO be a better comparison for how Linux is used in embedded systems.
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