Generally speaking, and I'm a bit biased, the TinyOS code is much more solid 
and efficient. But you're right that Contiki has a more active developer 
community. The TinyOS code that's there is rock solid, but our user-facing side 
could be better. Also, more active development on MCU and RFIC advances would 
be great.

I'm interested in the comment that following the installation instructions 
doesn't work; I had a student start playing with TinyOS and he said he was 
startled at how trivial and easy it was to get up and running.

Phil

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Philip Levis
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
http://csl.stanford.edu/~pal

On Jan 9, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Rahav Dor (yahoo) <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tend to agree with your comment, but leaving outside the kind of support 
> requests you mentioned, I still have hopes for TinyOS. Right now it does not 
> feel as a vibrant, active community. On top of that our public facing 
> information is often incorrect or incomplete, just try to install it by 
> following TinyOS web site and see where it would get you.
> 
> I believe that our work products should be usable by others. With the 
> potential of all-things-embedded, or Internet of Things, or whatever you want 
> to call it, TinyOS will not be successful if we forget this. 
>  
> Rahav Dor
> 
> 
> On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:12 AM, Saeid Yazdani <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> TinyOS is not ment to have support. A researcher at least in the case of 
> embedded systems or WSN PhD position should not need any support...I see many 
> people here who are researchers and they don't know basic C programming.
> I agree that support is a good thing but people shouldn't relay on others to 
> cut out the work for them. Kust y thoughts...
> On 9 Jan 2014 16:04, "Rahav Dor (yahoo)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should also consider support. I've been using TinyOS for research 
> purposes for a while and I can tell you that it seems like a dying product. 
> Or at least one, that not too many people care about. It takes days if not 
> longer to get a response on this forum.
> 
> I do not know how Contiki is doing in this respect, but if this continues, 
> the my current project is going to be the last on TinyOS.
>  
> Rahav Dor
> 
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