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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Another possible candidate for expansion of Rockbox?RE: Another possible candidate for expansion of Rockbox?
From: Chris Weaver <cweaver_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:49:55 -0600 Perhaps they meant it's ALWAYS better to have an open OS if you don't have access to the proprietary, closed source product and development tools. You must admit it is generally easier to modify a piece of consumer electronics gear running Linux. Windows CE devices aren't too hard because the development tools are available. But closed OS without access to development tools are difficult to modify to your own needs. -----Original Message----- From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Fred Maxwell Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:56 PM To: Rockbox development Subject: Re: Another possible candidate for expansion of Rockbox? eD\/ARd0 F/\KEn^M3 wrote: > I believe it's ALWAYS better to have an open OS. After 20+ years in the embedded systems arena, I'll have to disagree. The finest real-time OSs available are proprietary, closed source products. They weren't developed by taking a desktop or server OS and stripping stuff out. They were not designed to maintain compatability with old Unix apps. They were purpose-built to be small, fast, and bulletproof. If you want to know the worst-case interrupt latency in clock cycles, it's probably already been published. Try finding that for ucLinux. When building something, you want responsible vendors who have something to lose. If a failure of VRTX causes NASA to lose a satellite, it's going to hurt the people who make VRTX -- in a major, ugly way. If some piece of Linux code written by a 19 year old in the Ukraine fails, what does he have to lose? All things being equal, and open OS is the better choice, but things are seldom equal. Regards, Fred Maxwell _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-03-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |