Wake up to reality

Michael Sierchio ducatista at camber-thrust.net
Mon May 29 16:05:42 PDT 2006


shilo layston wrote:

 > Poul-Henning Kamp sez...

 >> FreeBSD is a great operating system for embedded use and people all over
 >> the world use this to their advantage.
 >
 > Judging on what I have heard over my career in embedded development,
 > *BSD (let alone FreeBSD) is almost completely unknown in the embedded market.
 > WindRiver, GreenHills, QNX, ... and possibly some Linuxs are the owners
 > of that marketplace.  [Maybe the notable exception is Juniper Networks;
 > I've heard they're a big BSD shop]

If you had the slightest idea what you were talking about, you'd know
the provenance of WindRiver and VxWorks and the embedded OS in Brocade
fiber channel switches, etc. etc. are all BSD.




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