Subject: Re: NetBSD/toaster at LinuxWorld San Francisco
To: Jesse Off <joff@embeddedARM.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 08/11/2005 10:44:28
On 11-Aug-05, at 10:18 AM, Jesse Off wrote:
> Seriously though, it is ridiculous. The intent was to attract
> people at
> LinuxWorld by leveraging the "NetBSD/toaster" joke and as a token
> embedded
> application for Technologic System customers. Automating a toaster
> isn't
> much different than regulating chemical temperatures in industrial
> production lines.
Yeah, the humor wasn't lost on me; and like I said, not to belittle
the achievement. It's just too bad there aren't real toasters that
are built with CPU's capable of running NetBSD.
Good on ya.