<x-flowed>I just received issue 01 of elj yesterday. It has an article that mentions
an embedded OS (Mobile Linux) created by Linus. The interesting part
(quoted below) IMO is cramfs and ramfs. Has anyone seen the source for
either of these file systems? Would they be useful? Could they possibly
solve the libc size problem?
http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/magazine/issue01 \
/4460/?sid=3c0bcb829060bfc7225e9628c88e81d9
>What we found when we started was that there were a few critical
>technologies missing from Linux. That's why Linus and some of the other
>developers here at Transmeta came up with cramfs, a compressed file system
>for ROMs and flash memory that allows you to stuff as much data as
>possible into media used by systems that lack a hard drive. He also wrote
>ramfs, which is a dynamically resizable RAM file system that you can use
>in just about any system. It's ideal for storing temporary data and, don't
>have a hard drive to write it to and don't want to write it to ROM or
>flash. It differs from RAM disks by using only as much space as the data
>requires, and by re-using a bunch of stuff from the kernel. Both cramfs
>and ramfs are now part of the Linux kernel.
http://www.transmeta.com/about/glossary.html
>Mobile Linux - a version of Linux created by TransmetaTM and distributed
>to its OEM customers for mobile Internet devices such as web slates and
>handheld clients that do not contain a hard drive. The principal
>enhancements for Mobile Linux are in the areas of power management and in
>the reduction of the memory footprint.
http://www.transmeta.com/about/faq.html
>19. What is Mobile Linux?
>Transmeta is creating a Linux distribution to support its OEM customers
>called Mobile Linux. Mobile Linux is designed for systems without hard
>disks, such as Mobile Internet devices (for example, Web slates, clients).
>The principal enhancements for Mobile Linux will be in power management
>and in the reduction of the memory footprint.
>
>21. Does Transmeta intend to release Mobile Linux to the open source
>community?
>Yes.
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