There were some interesting presentations at the recent ELC about systems running with very low memory. Particularly interesting were the talk about micro-Yocto by Tom Zanussi and the talk about Linux on microControllers by Vitaly Wool. Talk slides are online at: http://elinux.org/ELC_2014_Presentations
One use case that seems to keep coming up, but not mentioned nearly as directly as it should be, is single-process systems. It occurs to me that toybox is uniquely positioned to be a great base for single-process proprietary systems, because of it's license. Basically the proprietary piece can be statically linked with a few needed toybox tools, into a single binary, with the problems that one would encounter with the GPL and busybox. This gets you the tools reuse you need, along with static linking, which will help with overall system size, as well as allowing for proprietary solutions. I'm not saying this should affect development plans for toybox, but it might be worth promoting this aspect of toybox, to increase adoption (potentially both users and developers). -- Tim Bird Senior Software Engineer, Sony Mobile P.S. Yes - I'm still lurking about. :-) _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net