Re: Damm Small Linux

From: Robert Baer (robertbaer_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:36:39 GMT

Joel Kolstad wrote:
>
> "Robert Baer" <robertbaer@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:41A7EFC2.3152EF15@earthlink.net...
> > Exactly. QNX appears to be the only OS that is bug-free and crashless.
>
> It's a lot easier to keep a 40kB kernel bug free than one that's tens?
> hundreds? of megabytes as Windows, Linux, etc. are these days. The bigger
> OSes provide more features of course, but in many applications you may not
> need them. Moral of the story: Don't buy a bigger OS than you need?

  ...and if one needs to add features to a small, bug-free OS, it is
just another program running in the task list,
  Pick what you need when you need, and drop when done.

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