Re: Wake up to reality

From: Wilko Bulte <wb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:07:07 +0200
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:05:32PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote..
> shilo layston wrote:
> 
> > Poul-Henning Kamp sez...
> 
> >> FreeBSD is a great operating system for embedded use and people all over
> >> the world use this to their advantage.
> >
> > Judging on what I have heard over my career in embedded development,
> > *BSD (let alone FreeBSD) is almost completely unknown in the embedded 
> market.
> > WindRiver, GreenHills, QNX, ... and possibly some Linuxs are the owners
> > of that marketplace.  [Maybe the notable exception is Juniper Networks;
> > I've heard they're a big BSD shop]
> 
> If you had the slightest idea what you were talking about, you'd know
> the provenance of WindRiver and VxWorks and the embedded OS in Brocade
> fiber channel switches, etc. etc. are all BSD.

If you really knew what you were talking about you would know that all
the Brocade switches running FOS 4.x and 5.x are Linux based.  The Brocade
Multiprotocol router is based on NetBSD.  All FOS 2.x and 3.x Brocades
are VxWorks.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 06:07:28 UTC

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