Subject: Re: Real Time O.S vs 'conventional' one.
To: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-embed
Date: 10/26/2005 13:37:37
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
>>> I have embedded boards which I want to use as acess points for WLAN
>>> infrastructure.
>>> The choice is between NetBSD and Real Time Linux.
>>> What I am wondering about is if there is any advantage using real
>>> time O.S on wireless enviroment.
>
> That depends. If you want to run a business, then you don't want to run
> NetBSD at all, at least not right now, because it is buggy and under heavy
> development. If it is just for your home environment, you can give it a try.
Tell that to the bank of 4GB amd64 4000+ boxes in the server room
behind me running a mixture of postgres, tomcat, and perl apps.
There are some applications where one of NetBSD or Linux is clearly
a better choice, and many more where both will work fine.
Certainly there is a lot of embedded development happening on
NetBSD at the moment, but that is why it has release and
development branches :)
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