Re: Real Time O.S vs 'conventional' one.

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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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