I found this interesting http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4729641740.html
especially these bits: > Linksys's director of product marketing, Mani Dhillon, said Linksys made > the switch because, as a more deeply embedded system, VxWorks allowed > the company to halve the amounts of Flash and RAM in the device, while > retaining similar functionality. Apparently, reducing memory-related > BOM (bill-of-materials) costs more than offset the costs of licensing a > proprietary OS, given the WRT54G's extremely high sales volume. "We sell > literally hundreds of thousands per month," Dhillon said. > > The new, VxWorks-based WRT54G "series 5" models have 2MB of Flash, and > 8MB of RAM, compared with 4MB of Flash and 16MB of RAM in the earlier, > Linux-based versions. > According to Dhillon, Linksys's biggest competitors in the wireless > access point market, including NetGear and D-Link, switched from Linux > to VxWorks long ago. "Linux has a larger memory footprint. To be honest > with you, a lot of companies in the networking space have already > switched," he said. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19339 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
