Just figured I'd ask,
and see if anyone here has any opinions on a starting distro for a nearly
mission critical but realtime embeded like system, I can easily trade speed
to get predictability, but cant compromise stability. Ive currently got my
eye on BlueCat but its not cheap and this project has no $$ right now I know
there are a zillion others or at least it feels that way after spending a
significant amount of time looking.
not sure how much it matters but ... I am currently set to run this on an
intel p3 based board
my biggest concerns are
I need USB support (1.1). I have not installed a smaller distro in a while,
but I think USB was more difficult. and as the USB has to be a priority I
suspect issues there. anyone know what I will run into driver wise?
and size I dont have a lot of space for the OS 256mb for everything!
and getting at the unit, with no display/keyboard it leaves either serial,ir
or ethernet(thru crossover cord into laptop) to telnet/ssh ???better
ideas??? into. though FWIW security is NOT an issue.
and I wont have any display to look to see how things are going, if they
are, and what broke if they are not. and lack of space might significantly
effect the amount of OS style logging being done.
Thanks
richard reynolds
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