Re: Linux Beer Hike

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

"Alex Hudson" <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> tapped some keys and produced:


> > games that would make me want to upgrade in the near future. Psion has 
> > Word, Email and Addressbook. That's about all I need, why bother 
> > having a proper OS? It's not like I'll be running a web server on it.
> 
> Your arguement assumes that EPOC / SIBO aren't true operating systems, 
> and
> that is something I'd disagree completely with.

Whilst my terminology may be open to misinterpretation, (hey, I'm an
software engineer not a CS student) my point is, better to build a small
OS than take a big one and cut it down. Linux still is not in my book a
small OS. e.g. Amiga OS fit on a 256k ROM back in the early days. Not as
many features, but it's a PDA not a space shuttle...
My current kernel (2.3.99pre3, everything modular) is 580k, compressed.
There's stuff I wouldn't want in a PDA on there, but where possible
everything is modular (i.e. I have ext2, IDE and friends built in).
AFAIK a RISC kernel would probably be larger too...


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