Subject: Re: embedded customers are asking for linux
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/18/2003 15:36:26
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:15:55AM +0000, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> On the other hand, Linux is much more popular in embedded systems at
> least from my experience. Just two facts comes in mind:

NetBSD does not have a variant supporting MMU-less processors.  this is
becoming less of an issue as technology progresses and even $20
microcontrollers contain MMUs, but currently NetBSD cannot compete in
the same domain as µCLinux.

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