Kirk Smith writes:
> In searching the Linux home page (www.linux.org) for the latest and greatest
> kernel, I came across mention of a "Lightweight" Linux. The basic concept
> being stripping down the kernel to the bare minimum, and doing a few "patches"
> to make it diskless (and operate in very little memory).
>
> Will RTLinux work under a stripped down version of Linux? I don't see why not.
I experimented with RT-linux as an ordinary diskless workstation
booting via ethernet/BOOTP. (The intention was porting the control
software for a 3 axis CNC controlled milling machine from DOS to RT-linux.)
The main advantage with booting as a diskless is that you can develop
the system without having to worry about FLASH disk sizes, RAM disks,
Read Only file systems etc., and the file system does not get
corrupted if the system crashes during development of the
RT-modules due to NFS' stateless design. (At least you do not have to
wait for fsck to finish when using NFS..)
In addition, it was convenient to have the CNC data files available
via NFS instead of using floppies...
Regards,
Nils Ulltveit-Moe
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