On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> wrote: > Reinventing the wheel is a good idea only if you are > absolutely, positively sure your new wheel will be at least ten times > better than the current state–of–the–art wheel.
I am not an expert about if that applies in all the places and topics. Ask to the chinese people. Maybe reinventing the wheel is one way to know if something could be done better?. No all the things are understood before it is done and you test and modify the new thing for a long time. > Linux is not a perfect, but it works pretty damn well; moreover, it is > developed by hundreds of really smart guys and supported by large > companies that use it as a base for their main products, which ensures > it will become better and better as time goes by. I agree. But Linux is not the only one and surely no the best of the bests for many things. > If you really want to create something Ben–specific, my advice would > be: don’t. Instead, use your time to improve the upstream situation > of the Ben, to take mainteniance burden off Qi as much as possible. I still think that embedded Debian or some similar embedded Fedora should be better than Openwrt or OpenEmbedded in many devices. For Ben I can not prove that idea yet, but I do not agree that helping with upstream situation (I suppose that you are talking about openwrt) is the best of the bests things to do for Ben. Help is the best thing. But, in my opinion, neither there is not a best OS thing for the Ben, nor a really good one for final users yet. Rafa _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
