Re: Embedded Linux vs CE

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

We are using a display card and video touch screen not supported under
linux and it would require the company to port the drivers over (I would
probably be doing the porting) butsince we have such a tight deadline in
getting product to our customers there is no way that we have time to
change OSes.  I really wish we did.

Yeah, I never understood why they had to rebuild the entire image as well.  





On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Nathan Yawn wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> No, time for Linux to move forward.
> 
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> > Mark said:
> > > I work in the CE shop and I can't get Linux in here
> > > because of that.
> >
> > Sounds like time to get another job.  ;-)
> 
> 
> 	You mean to tell me that the people you work with actually put up with all 
> the CE BS?  I spent a week in CA going to "CE school," and all I could 
> think for the entire week was, "Why do these people put up with this? 
>  Don't they know any better?"  I don't know about other architectures, but 
> for x86, Linux is infinitely easier to use, on both kernel and user app 
> levels.  And far better to work with...it can do useful things like change 
> its IP address on the fly, and change installed programs without spending 
> 30 minutes recompiling the whole 15MB image.  I also thought it was 
> interesting that at CE school, they told us that when we needed a CE driver 
> that didn't exist, the advice they gave us was "look at the source for the 
> Linux driver."
> 
> 	I'm sorry, this was a bit more than the discusison called for, but I 
> really despise CE, and I felt the need to rant for a moment. ;)  Mark, 
> perhaps your cow-orkers need a demonstration of what makes Linux easier? 
>  We have to deal with CE here only because customers specifically ask for 
> it to use in their own projects.  If it wasn't for that, we'd never touch 
> it...the only appropriate application I've found for CE is on handhelds for 
> People Who Don't Know Anything but Windows and Fear Change. ;)
> 
> 
> Nathan Yawn,  yawn@emacinc.com
> 
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