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embedded_guy123

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Comments for: "Is Linux bloated? Hardly"
Posted: Oct 15, 2009 8:41 AM
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Read the article here: Is Linux bloated? Hardly
embedded_guy123

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Posted: Oct 15, 2009 8:41 AM   in response to: embedded_guy123 in response to: embedded_guy123
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Bill,

Great article. Thanks!
K1200LT Rider

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Re: Comments for: "Is Linux bloated? Hardly"
Posted: Oct 15, 2009 4:45 PM   in response to: embedded_guy123 in response to: embedded_guy123
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Bill,

Thanks for clearing this up. As soon as I saw what Linus said, I was actually starting to worry about what direction Linux was heading.

By the way, "as the recognized 'embedded Linux guy'," do you have any suggestions for any particular books or tutorials for starting to learn to use embedded Linux? Possibly even within an FPGA?

Thanks,
Brad
Venata Ramana

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Posted: Oct 16, 2009 8:04 AM   in response to: embedded_guy123 in response to: embedded_guy123
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Good analysis Bill, Thank you. Probably the creator would mean the architectural changes and kernel maintenance. When configuring Linux for Desktop (not sure about server) we may omit to exclude many modules that are not required.

Brad,
I use the following two references for Linux usage in Embedded Systems (however there are other good references to cover its architecture)

1. Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach by Christopher Hallinan

2. Embedded Linux System Design and Development by P. Raghavan and others

These two are nice books for embedded linux enthu...
robert.berger

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Re: Comments for: "Is Linux bloated? Hardly"
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 1:26 AM   in response to: embedded_guy123 in response to: embedded_guy123
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Bill,

If you read this, you might also want to read this: http://www.embedded.com/220700125?cid=NL_embedded

As I mentioned there: "I might be a bit biased, since I'm flying out in a couple of days to hold an Embedded Linux Training (http://tiny.cc/EGLISA), but I'll try not to be;)"

Compared to other operating systems with similar capabilities it's not that bloated. Compared to tiny real-time operating systems it is.

I'm impressed by the fact that the lines of code reached in the meantime 12 million in a relatively short amount of time with not too many people added and not too many bugs introduced.

How do they do this? Maybe it's the law of many eyeballs which makes it work?
Can it be that simple?

Regards,

Robert

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bgat

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Re: Comments for: "Is Linux bloated? Hardly"
Posted: Oct 30, 2009 11:38 AM   in response to: embedded_guy123 in response to: embedded_guy123
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Linux's low bug count comes from the dedication of the contributors to organization, code quality, and sensible APIs. No magic anywhere.
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