[ale] Aww... This is sad...

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 20:55 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I can see their reason for doing it... I just would think, though,
> that
> if they were going to switch, it'd be better to stay in the same
> "genre"
> of system; any of one's pick of *BSD runs on virtually anything, and a
> base install is *tiny* compared to a "base" install of virtually any
> given Linux distribution.

base install of Linux big?

Linux is a kernel not the whole system.  People that don't do embedded
stuff don't see this.  Use the kernel for the hardware support and the
features and write your own code for everything else.