Peter Vandenabeele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ Please CC replies to me - thanks! ]
> > I'm considering some different possibilities to use for an > > embedded Linux distribution, and as a long-time Debian developer, > > my first instinct is something connected with Debian. > > It's not a "deeply embedded" system - we have at least 32 megs to > > play with, and it has to do soft real time, but I don't see these > > as particularly difficult requirements. > First question is what is your CPU platform (x86, ARM, PowerPC, > MIPS, ...). It matters, since the efficient _cross-compilation_ of > Debian packages is one of the issues that is tackled in emdebian. The target is a pretty normal x86 system, although there may be others in the future. > > I think initially getting something up and working is more > > important. > > So: > > 1) Are people using embdebian in production systems now? > We have no customers using emdebian (yet). Most of our work is based > on Debian (unstable) on the host and the standard combo of > Linux/glibc/uClibc/busybox/thttpd + custom applications on the > target. I see... > > 3) (If you care to respond) What are the advantages and > > disadvantages compared with other systems? > The main advantage should be the reuse of the massive amount of well > maintained Debian packages for an embedded context. Our system will most likely have a relatively small amount of software installed. A few large packages are all that are really necessary. > > 4) Anything else that you can think of that's cool or useful about > > embdebian :-) > If done well, it could become the major source of user land packages > for embedded systems from a community source (like Debian already is > in the server/desktop world). And we see customers that require > widely supported community (non-commercial) sources for their > packages. It looks like a cool effort. If we decide to go that route, I might be able to participate some in the future, but for the moment I'm afraid I need to pick something, and quickly too! One of the other contenders is snapgear - any opinions on that? > Hoep this helps, Oh, it certainly does! Thanks for taking the time to answer. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
